Winners of Robot Art Contest revealed 
Andrew Conru, founder of FriendFinder Networks, has hosted the first Robot Art Contest providing an insight into the creative potentials of robots and artificial intelligence. TAIDA, a robot created by National Taiwan University, won the first prize of $30,000 after the robot's sophisticated colour mixing techniques caught the attention of the judges. Runner-ups included CloudPainter from George Washington University, NoRAA from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and e-David from University of Konstanz.



The winners of the very first Robot Art Contest have been announced!

National Taiwan University

Andrew Conru, the founder of the social networking company FriendFinder Networks, hosted the contest to show that robots can have a creative side. There were two categories in the contest: Telerobotics, which is for robots that collaborate with humans, and Fully Automated painting robots.

Here are the winners: