Carnegie Mellon University Frida Robot AI Artist
There’s Ai-Da, and then Carnegie Mellon University’s FRIDA robot, named after Frida Kahlo. Put simply, it’s a robotic arm with a paintbrush that uses artificial intelligence to collaborate with humans on works of art mimicking the great masters.



Users can direct FRIDA (Framework and Robotics Initiative for Developing Arts) by simply typing in a text description, submit other works of art as inspiration or just upload a photograph and ask it to paint a representation. The CMU Robotics Institute team is currently working on other inputs, such as audio. It uses AI models similar to those powering ChatGPT and DALL-E 2.

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FRIDA is a project exploring the intersection of human and robotic creativity. FRIDA is using the kind of AI models that have been developed to do things like caption images and understand scene content and applying it to this artistic generative problem,” said Jim McCann, CMU Robotics Institute Faculty Member.

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