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‘Mind-blowing’: Ai-Da becomes first robot to paint like an artist | Robots
Brush clamped firmly in bionic hand, Ai-Da’s robotic arm moves gradually, dipping in to a paint palette then generating slow, deliberate strokes across the paper in front of her. This, in accordance to Aidan Meller, the creator of the world’s very first ultra-sensible humanoid robot, Ai-Da, is “mind-blowing” and “groundbreaking” things. In a small place at London’s British Library, Ai-Da – assigned the she/her pronoun – has come to be the first robot to paint as artists have painted for generations. Ai-Da will take more than five hrs to make a portray, but no two functions are specifically the exact same. Photograph: Hollie Adams/Getty Photographs Digital camera eyes preset on…
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Ana Matronic got her love of robots from Star Wars – Music News
Ana Matronic became obsessed with robots after watching ‘Star Wars’ because C-3PO reminded her of her dad. The Scissor Sisters member shared how her lifelong love of sci-fi began when she was barely three years old. The 47-year-old singer told Danielle Perry on the Absolute Radio podcast ‘Elevenses with Danielle Perry’: It started with ‘Star Wars’, which was the first film I remember seeing in the theatre, right around age three, not even age three. And I remember really clearly thinking that C-3PO was a lot like my dad. And we would joke that he was kind of like him and kind of like, uptight and fastidious and persnickety and…