Worms, Springs, and Soft Robots: Tiny Creatures Inspire Giant Leaps

Researchers at Georgia Tech recently unveiled an impressive achievement: a 5-inch-long soft robot that can catapult itself 10 feet into the air – the height of a basketball hoop – without any legs. The design was inspired by the humble nematode, a tiny roundworm thinner than…

It’s Not About What AI Can Do for Us, But What We Can Do for AI

Most view artificial intelligence (AI) through a one-way lens. The technology only exists to serve humans and achieve new levels of efficiency, accuracy, and productivity. But what if we’re missing half of the equation? And what if, by doing so, we’re only amplifying the technology’s flaws?…

Restoring and Editing Human Images With AI

A new collaboration between University of California Merced and Adobe offers an advance on the state-of-the-art in human image completion – the much-studied task of ‘de-obscuring’ occluded or hidden parts of images of people, for purposes such as virtual try-on, animation and photo-editing. The new approach,…

Fixing Diffusion Models’ Limited Understanding of Mirrors and Reflections

Since generative AI began to garner public interest, the computer vision research field has deepened its interest in developing AI models capable of understanding and replicating physical laws; however, the challenge of teaching machine learning systems to simulate phenomena such as gravity and liquid dynamics has…

John Gaeta, Founder and CEO of Escape.ai – Interview Series

John Gaeta, Founder and CEO of Eescape.ai, is a visionary innovator best known for his Academy Award-winning work on The Matrix trilogy. A pioneer in immersive media and future-facing technologies, Gaeta has spent his career exploring the fusion of storytelling, real-time rendering, spatial computing, and artificial…