Ai-Da, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, is poised to make art history as her latest work, a portrait of computing pioneer Alan Turing, goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s London next month.

Ai-Da could become the world’s first humanoid robot AI artist to have a work sold by a major auction house. A painting of Alan Turing the father of modern computer science that she helped to create with human assistants is being sold by Sotheby’s where it is expected to make up to £150,

The 'haunting' piece depicts Alan Turing, one of the fathers of modern computing, who had warned about the use of artificial intelligence The robot artist Ai-Da, a humanoid powered by artificial intelligence,