Robot artist "IDA" is preparing to open its first exhibition

science and technology

Wearing a white blouse and black hair hanging down on her shoulders, "Ida" looks like any artist studying what he will create before he begins to draw using the paper and pen. But the saffron from her automatic arm reveals her secret, she is just a robot.

Next week, Ida, who is described as "the world's first artist robot and artificial intelligence worker," opens her first art exhibition to include eight drawings, 20 paintings and four sculptures.

Her inventor and gallery owner Eden Miller says Ida offers a "new voice" for the art world.

"Technological sound is the important thing that deserves attention because it affects everyone," Miller told Reuters during a preview.

"We have a very clear message that we would like to explore: the use and misuse of artificial intelligence today because the current decade is undergoing a major transformation and we are concerned about it and we want to put ethical considerations into it."

The robot Aida, named after the British mathematician and computer scientist Ada Lovlis, can be painted thanks to eyeball cameras and artificial intelligence algorithms developed by Oxford University scientists that help them send coordinates to their arms to create works of art.

The cameras recognize the human features and enables the robot Ida to communicate visually and follow people with their eyes and the tradition of standing in front of her to open or close her mouth. If one of them is very close to it, it turns back, and it is extreme in its eyes, expressing shock.

The Ida robot exhibition opens on June 12 at Barn Gallery at St. John's College of Cambridge University.