Ai-Da Robot, an ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, has painted a picture of Queen Elizabeth to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee.
After seven decades on the throne, Queen Elizabeth might have thought she had seen it all – until a robot offered to paint her portrait.
Ai-Da Robot is an artificial intelligence robot that creates drawings, paintings, and sculptures. Through cameras and computer memory, she is able to leverage a variety of unique algorithms to make an artistic representation of abstract images. Then, Ai-Da’s robotic arm turns its digital formations into physical drawings and paintings.
The robot’s portrait, Algorithmic Queen, was designed to reflect the different aspects of technological change that have taken place during Queen Elizabeth’s 70-year reign.
Ai-Da has the appearance of a woman and is named after 18th-century mathematician and scientist Ada Lovelace.
She is also able to have a conversation using a specially designed language model. During the unveiling of the painting, she spoke to the press, and thanked Her Majesty for “her dedication” and “the service she gives to so many people”.