This Wild Robot Taps AI to Paint Whatever You Tell It To - CNET

When AI tools like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion turned your short text prompts into digital art? Meet Frida, an AI-driven robot out of Carnegie Mellon University that transforms your prompts into physical paintings, complete with bold brushstrokes in a variety of techniques. Perhaps most strikingly, the bot can change course as it paints to mimic the iterative nature of making art. "It will work with its failures and it will alter its goals," Peter Schaldenbrand, a Ph.D. student at CMU's School of Computer Science and one of the robot's creators, said in a video describing the project. Frida aims to explore the intersection of robots and creativity, says the team, which presents its research paper this May at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in London.