Justin
Baird
Selected Work
Featured Projects
Tesseract MindFlow: Human in the Lead
A non-invasive brain-computer interface that lets people paint with their mind, reading attention and intention through an EEG headset and translating them into the strokes of a robotic arm and brush. Not human in the loop, human in the lead.
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.
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Media & Talks
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Sofia's painting of "the Mermaid" which is a shared autonomy creation. It leverages Ivy Chen's artwork as the basis for Sofia's creation. Through Sofia's brain computer interface, she created the painting, selected the colours and the strokes to produce this artwork at Tech Enable at the Enabling Village in Lengkok Bahru
Gallery
Photos 2026
First painting session with Ruo En! She is very witty and so enthusiastic about the project, it was a joy to meet her and collaborate together.
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.
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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