Sophia the Robot's Hand-Painted NFT Self-Portrait Fetches Over $700,000 USD

The world-famous humanoid robot, Sophia, has sold a hand-painted "self-portrait" at auction as a non-fungible token for over $688,000 USD. Called Sophia Instantiation, the digital artwork is a 12-second MP4 file showing the transformation of Andrea Bonaceto's portrait into Sophia's digital painting -- Bonaceto is an artist and partner at blockchain investment firm Eterna Capital. The minted clip portrays Sophia crafting a portrait her own face which was then processed by the robot's neural netwo...