‘Mind-blowing’: Ai-Da becomes first robot to paint like an artist

AI algorithms prompt robot to interrogate, select, and decision-make to create a painting

Brush clamped firmly in bionic hand, Ai-Da's robotic arm moves slowly, dipping in to a paint palette then making slow, deliberate strokes across the paper in front of her.

This, according to Aidan Meller, the creator of the world's first ultra-realistic humanoid robot, Ai-Da, is mind-blowing" and groundbreaking" stuff.