An AI robot’s painting of British computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for $1.08 million, becoming the most valuable artwork by a humanoid robot ever to change hands at auction and raising new questions about the role of artificial intelligence in art.

The “world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist” has sold a portrait of Alan Turing – the codebreaking trailblazer of modern computer science – for over $1 million. The sale marks the first work of art by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction (although,

A portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing became the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction, fetching more than USD1 million on Thursday. The 2.2-metre portrait “A.I. God” by “Ai-Da”,

Sotheby's recently sold the first artwork made by a humanoid robot using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for $1 million, blasting past its estimate of $120,000 to $180,000. On November 7, the artwork A.

A painting by a humanoid robot artist called Ai-Da has made history by selling for $1.32 million USD (£1 millon GBP) at Sotheby's on Thursday (November 7), the first time a humanoid robot has had its work sold by a major auction house.