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Rachelle Abbott

Tech & Science Daily: Humanoid robot Ai-Da makes history painting the Queen

Ai-Da Robot creates ‘Algorithm Queen’, the world’s first painting of Queen Elizabeth II by a Humanoid Robot, May 2022

(Picture: Aidan Meller )

We find out about the humanoid Ai-Da who is behind the first-ever painting of the Queen by a robot - which has been created to mark the Platinum Jubilee.

Tech & Science Daily speak to Aidan Meller who devised Ai-Da.

He says the piece is extra special as 70 years of the Queen coincides with 70 years of robotic technological growth. Despite the futuristic nature of the art work’s creation, it was painted using oil on canvas.

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