The Robot Artist That's Redefining The Meaning of Creativity

"People don't judge an artwork on its own merit," said Aidan Meller, the director of a prestigious U.K. gallery called, well, the Aidan Meller Gallery. "They always do it through the lens of the artist. When you look at a Picasso or you look at Tracey Emin, you have a very different response based on the personalities that created [the work]. It's not the kind of conversation you might expect to have with an art expert and dealer whose previous big splash of publicity came, in 2014, when he helped bring to light seven large cardboard boxes of drawings found in a loft, which turned out to be highly significant Pre-Raphaelite School sketches. But somewhere, it seems, Meller's trajectory changed course. "[A few years ago] I was playing with my son, and he was building a robot out of Lego," he told Digital Trends. "It was an epiphany moment.