A portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing became the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction, fetching more than $1.0 million on Thursday.

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 sale price far exceeded the pre-auction estimate of $120,000-$180,000, with the work ...

A portrait of Alan Turing created by a robot has been auctioned for more than £800,000 and made history in the process. Ai-Da Robot, named after Ada Lovelace, who is considered to be the first computer programmer, has become the first humanoid robotic artist to have their artwork sold by a major auction house.

A painting by an AI robot of the eminent World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for a record $1.3m (£1m) at auction. Sotherby's said there were 27 bids for the digital art sale of "A.I. God", which had been originally estimated to sell for between $120,000 (£9,252) and $180,000 (£139,000).

Artificial intelligence ventured into new territories when Ai-Da, the robot artist’s painting, sold for $1.08 million at a closed auction in New York. The drawing was of the British mathematician Alan Turing.