OXFORD, ENGLAND ¨C Wearing a white blouse and her dark hair hanging loose, Ai-Da looks like any artist at work as she studies her subject and puts pencil to paper. But the beeping from her bionic arm gives her away ¡ª Ai-Da is a robot.

Described as ¡°the world¡¯s first ultra-realistic AI humanoid robot artist,¡± Ai-Da opens her first solo exhibition of eight drawings, 20 paintings, four sculptures and two video works next week, bringing ¡°a new voice¡± to the art world, her British inventor and gallery owner Aidan Meller said.

¡°The technological voice is the important one to focus on because it affects everybody,¡± he said at a preview. ¡°We¡¯ve got a very clear message we want to explore: the uses and abuses of AI today, because this next decade is coming in dramatically and we¡¯re concerned about that and we want to have ethical considerations in all of that.¡±

Named after British mathematician and computer pioneer Ada Lovelace, Ai-Da can draw from sight thanks to cameras in her eyeballs and AI algorithms created by scientists at the University of Oxford that help produce co-ordinates for her arm to create art.

She uses a pencil or pen for sketches, but the plan is for Ai-Da to paint and create pottery. Her paint works now are printed onto canvas with a human painting over.

¡°From those coordinates from the drawing we¡¯ve been able to take that into a algorithm that is then able to output it through a Cartesian graph that then produces a final image,¡± Meller said.

¡°It¡¯s a really exciting process never been done before in the way that we¡¯ve done it. ... We don¡¯t know exactly how the drawings are going to turn out and that¡¯s really important.¡±

On show at the ¡°Unsecured Futures¡± exhibition are drawings paying tribute to Lovelace and mathematician Alan Turing, abstract paintings of trees, sculptures based on Ai-Da¡¯s drawings of a bee, and video works, one of which, ¡°Privacy¡± pays homage to Yoko Ono¡¯s 1965 ¡°Cut Piece.¡±

Ai-Da, whose construction was completed in April, has already seen her art snapped up.

¡°It¡¯s a sold out show with over a million pounds worth of artworks sold,¡± Meller said.

The exhibition, which opens on June 12 at the Barn Gallery at the University of Oxford¡¯s St. John¡¯s College, looks at the boundaries between technology, AI and organic life.

Asked by Meller about ¡°all the AI going on at the moment,¡± Ai-Da, who has pre-programed speech, replied: ¡°New technologies bring the potential for good and evil. It is a great responsibility to try to curb excesses of negative use, something that we all must consider.¡±