Da will be auctioned at Sotheby’s at the end of the month. Launched in 2019, Ai-Da incorporates AI and robotics to create paintings. Other similar initiatives have also attracted the attention of major auction houses.

Sotheby's will hold an auction later this month for "AI God," a painting created by Ai-Da, a humanoid robot artist.

In a first for Sotheby’s, the famed auction house will sell a painting made by a humanoid robot — and it’s expected to fetch up to a whopping $180,000. The robot, known as Ai-Da, created the painting of renowned mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing entitled “AI God” with its own hydraulically powered hands.

U.K.-based art dealer and gallery owner Aidan Meller created the Ai-Da humanoid robot, depicted as a woman with a black bob and dressed in a t-shirt and denim overalls. The robot

Sotheby’s aims to make history this month by selling its first-ever artwork made by a humanoid robot. A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turig by Ai-Da is predicted to fetch six figures, according to the auction house.

Sotheby's will auction its first artwork made by a humanoid robot using artificial intelligence algorithms. On October 31, the auction house will sell A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024) by the humanoid robot artist Ai-Da.