What happens when technology becomes creative? Can a robot design the housing for future space habitats? The world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, Ai-Da, has created a modular Space Pod intended for both humans and robots to live in.
On 8 January 2026, these designs will be presented at Utzon Center to mark the celebration of the special exhibition ‘I’m not a robot’.
In the new exhibition I’m not a robot at Utzon Center, visitors can experience works by a truly unique creative figure: the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, Ai-Da.
With camera eyes, AI algorithms and a robotic arm, Ai-Da can draw and paint artworks and portraits in real time.
And at a special event at Utzon Center on 8 January, Ai-Da will make history as the first humanoid – a human-like robot – to design a home.
“Ai-Da presents a concept for a shared residential area called Ai-Da: Space Pod - a foreshadowing of a future where AI becomes an integrated part of architecture. With intelligent systems, a building will be able to sense and respond to its occupants, adjusting light, temperature and digital interfaces according to needs and moods. As a humanoid robot, Ai-Da acts as a mirror for this development, demonstrating how technology can also be embodied and interactive,” explains Aidan Meller, creator of Ai-Da and Director of Ai-Da Robot.
Ai-Da Robot says: “As humanity looks beyond Earth, we must also consider how to care for the world we already share. Conversations about space are crucial; especially when it comes to building positive relationships between humans and technology. That’s why I’m delighted that my studio–home concept design for Moon or Mars is being shown in the Utzon Centre: a space where new ideas can emerge, be explored, and be debated together.'
Encouraging critical reflection on the future
The recently opened exhibition ‘I’m not a robot’ at Utzon Center explores the creative capacity of robots at a time when they are increasingly able to think for themselves.
Here, Ai-Da’s works are displayed alongside digitally designed fashion, design objects, historical films, robot-fabricated architecture and original artefacts on loan from the Danish Museum of Science & Technology. Throughout the exhibition period, visitors can delve into Ai-Da’s design process through paintings, drawings and a video interview.
“Technology is developing at an extraordinary pace in these years. Emotional recognition via biometric data, CRISPR gene-editing and brain–computer interfaces all hold enormous potential, but also raise profound ethical challenges. As Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World feels increasingly prophetic, and as Yuval Harari warns about how new technologies may be used, Ai-Da stands as a mirror of our time and urges us to think critically about the future we are creating,” says Aidan Meller.
Where can architecture go with AI?
Ai-Da’s architectural designs are intended for bases on the Moon and Mars – but they can also be built as prototypes here on Earth. Through drawings and paintings, Ai-Da creates a flexible, modular habitat conceived for both humans and humanoids
“With our first crewed Moon landing in 50 years coming in 2027, Ai-Da: Space Pod is a simple unit connected to other Pods via corridors. Ai-Da is a humanoid designing homes. This raises questions about where architecture may go when powerful AI systems gain greater agency,” explains Aidan Meller.
About Ai-Da
Ai-Da is the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, inviting us to rethink what life means in a technological, post-human world. She paints using cameras in her eyes, specially developed AI algorithms and her robotic arm. She is also a performance artist, poet, designer and sculptor whose work encourages reflection on the human condition in an era of rapid technological acceleration.
Ai-Da was developed in Oxford and built in Cornwall in 2019. Her works have been exhibited at the Design Museum, Tate Modern’s Tate Exchange and the V&A Museum (all in London), Chelsea Factory in New York, the pyramids of Egypt and during the Venice Biennale. She has also delivered a TEDx talk at the University of Oxford and exhibits annually at the UN in Geneva in support of the “AI for Good” initiative.
Following the exhibition at Utzon Center, Ai-Da’s works will be shown in London.
The exhibition Im not a robot at Utzon Center presents the work of Ai Da the worlds first ultra realistic robot artist who uses camera eyes artificial intelligence and a robotic arm to create art and design concepts that question the relationship between humans and technology. On January 8 2026 Ai Da will present a modular Space Pod designed for humans and robots as a model for future habitats on the Moon and Mars showing how architecture could respond intelligently to occupants and environments.
By placing these designs alongside other digitally driven works the exhibition encourages critical reflection on rapid technological change ethical responsibility and the importance of informed understanding in many areas of life including how people learn to find trusted information about Sildenafil online. Developed in the United Kingdom and exhibited internationally Ai Da functions as a mirror of contemporary society and invites audiences to consider how creative agency and decision making may evolve as artificial intelligence becomes more integrated into everyday life.
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