Justin
Baird
Selected Work
Featured Projects
Synthaesthetic Portrait Robot
A multimodal generative AI system for robotic painting that converts portraits into physical artworks using vision-language models, diffusion generation, and robotic path execution. Featured installation at SuperAI 2025.
Neuroflix: AI-Powered Video Learning Platform
A generative AI platform converting enterprise knowledge into dynamic video learning experiences. Winner of the Google Gemini Hackathon Singapore.
Codex Pianist: LLM-Assisted Robotic Piano System
A robotic pianist controlling an Inspire robotic hand mounted on a UF850 robot arm, built using LLM-assisted engineering workflows. Top 5 Finalist at the OpenAI Codex Hackathon.
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Media & Talks
Video
Robots Can Read Your Mind and Paint Your Thoughts
An episode of The Hardware Podcast on Tesseract MindFlow and using brain-computer interfaces to let people paint with their thoughts.
Video
Reachy Rap Battle at Google I/O Extended 2026
A live rap battle featuring the Reachy robot at Google I/O Extended 2026 in Singapore.
DigiconAsia
Brain-controlled art and BCI: the future of creativity and accessibility?
DigiconAsia covers the live brain-controlled painting demonstration at SuperAI 2026 in Singapore, a collaboration featuring Justin Baird (Tesseract.art) that turns neural activity into robotic art and explores brain-computer interfaces for creativity, accessibility, and human-machine collaboration.
Research
Selected Publications
Tesseract MindFlow: Synthaesthetic Robotic Painting via Shared Autonomy to Restore Creative Agency for Diverse Abilities
Preprint, submitted to NeurIPS 2026
Journal
Recent Articles
Curiosity, and the People You Keep
There is no single source of knowledge, only curiosity and the people you surround yourself with. Advice for young builders: go where the action is.
Swarm Robots, World Models, and What Comes Next
Where I place my bets in robotics: world models and 3D maps, self-assembling astrocyte swarms, and the idea that most of the future is already imagined.
Painting With Your Mind
From music to brainwaves: building brain-control interfaces so people who have lost the ability to move can create again, and the mission behind Tesseract.
Tesseract: Turning Music Into Paintings
Salvador Dali, a four-dimensional cube, NeurIPS papers, and the copyright question that reframed the robot as an instrument, not an author.
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