Step inside Van Gogh’s paintings and explore entire AI-generated worlds! At the World Labs Hackathon, hackers built fully interactive environments in just a few hours, meanwhile Google’s Project Genie lets anyone transform simple prompts or images into immersive, navigable AI worlds in real time.
In 2026, AI moves beyond chatbots to become the operating layer of modern enterprises and creative industries. Our prognosis explores the key shifts shaping the year ahead: from “digital coworkers” and multimodal intelligence to MCP as the backbone of scalable AI.
The Speech-to-Reality system transforms spoken commands into physical objects using a combination of natural language processing, 3D generative AI, and robotic assembly. The system enables users to request items like chairs, stools, or shelves and have them assembled by a robotic arm in as little as five minutes.
NVIDIA Cosmos enhances AI robotics by generating photorealistic 3D environments, allowing developers to train autonomous systems without relying on costly real-world data. With advanced world foundation models, Cosmos drives innovation in robotics, self-driving cars, and industrial automation.
Edify 3D by NVIDIA creates high-quality 3D models in under 2 minutes using AI. By combining multi-view diffusion models and Transformers, it offers fast, accurate, and scalable 3D generation from text or images, making it a perfect solution for gaming, animation, and design industries.
Scientists presented a smart bionic finger that can create 3D maps of the internal structure of materials by touching their exterior surface.
Self-driving cars have long been considered the next generation mode of transportation. To enable autonomous navigation of such vehicles numerous different technologies need to be implemented.
MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning technique that precisely collects and models the underlying acoustics of a location from just a limited number of sound recordings.
During the last decade, one of the biggest issues in the gaming industry is the explosive growth of the AAA video games production cost. Studios are always on the look-up for technologies that could help bring down the cost of game development. Recent advances in the neural image generation models bring some hope that the realization of this dream may be not so far away.