What just happened? Top-tier video editing suites can seamlessly remove objects from scenes, even generating realistic shadows and reflections for the freshly removed elements. However, these tools ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory team has released several 3D models of celestial onbjects that you can print. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart Trump promises mass pardons to staff before leaving office X ...

Apple researchers have created an AI model that reconstructs a 3D object from a single image, while keeping reflections, highlights, and other effects consistent across different viewing angles. Here ...

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...

Alibaba's new AI model called RynnBrain is focused on powering robots. One video released by Alibaba's DAMO Academy shows a robot identifying fruit and putting it in a basket. Nvidia and Google are ...

Less than a week after the launch of Google’s Project Genie, Roblox is sharing some of its ideas about AI world models. Less than a week after the launch of Google’s Project Genie, Roblox is sharing ...

Roblox has announced a beta tool which enables users to create interactive 3D models from text prompts, an upgrade to its existing 3D asset generation tool revealed last year. The feature was ...

Read a story about dogs, and you may remember it the next time you see one bounding through a park. That’s only possible because you have a unified concept of “dog” that isn’t tied to words or images ...

At CES 2026, Nvidia launched Alpamayo, a new family of open source AI models, simulation tools, and datasets for training physical robots and vehicles that are designed to help autonomous vehicles ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...