Part of the auction house's Digital Art Sale, the work titled AI God (first shown in May at the United Nations in Geneva during the AI for Good Global Summit) was estimated to sell between $120,000 and $180,000 and saw 27 bids before an anonymous buyer claimed victory.

Da, a humanoid AI-powered robot, has made history as the first robot to sell a work of art at auction. The portrait, titled “AI God,” which depicts Alan Turing — the WWII Enigma code-breaker and early AI pioneer — sold for an impressive $1.

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,

The first artwork done by a humanoid robot, famously known as Ai-Da, has been sold in auction for over $1 million.

A painting by Ai-Da Robot, a humanoid robot powered using artificial intelligence (AI), sold for more than $1m (including auction house fees) at Sotheby’s New York on Thursday (7 November). The painting is the most valuable artwork ever sold by a robot artist, according to the auction house, driven up by 27 bids.

Sotheby’s recently held an auction for the first artwork made by a humanoid robot. And while the company was expecting the sale to fall between $120,000 and $180,000, the piece ultimately went for over $1 million, after a fierce round that saw 27 bids.

Da, the world's first ultra-realistic artist robot that is capable of drawing and painting using cameras in her eyes, AI algorithms, and h