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.
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An episode of The Hardware Podcast on Tesseract MindFlow and using brain-computer interfaces to let people paint with their thoughts.
A live rap battle featuring the Reachy robot at Google I/O Extended 2026 in Singapore.
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.
Filmed at SuperAI 2026 in Singapore: Tesseract MindFlow Part 2, featuring Justin Baird (Tesseract.art) and a robot that paints using brainwaves, in collaboration with Jackie Tan (Mind Interface Company) and disability advocate Kai Ming Ng.
Tesseract MindFlow, the shared-autonomy, brain-controlled painting system that lets people with disabilities create art through non-invasive EEG signals.
Justin Baird's segment at the AI Engineer World's Fair Singapore, demonstrating brain-controlled painting with artist Kai Ming. Starts at his talk.
Live from AI Engineer Singapore 2026, Justin Baird (Founder, Tesseract) joins Asia Tech Podcast Official for his on-stage segment. Playback starts at the 2:00:00 mark, where his interview begins.
A short clip of the Codex Pianist robotic piano system in action.
The Codex Pianist, an LLM-assisted robotic piano system controlling an Inspire robotic hand on a UF850 arm. Top 5 finalist at the OpenAI Codex Hackathon.
Neuroflix, a generative AI platform that turns enterprise knowledge into dynamic video learning experiences. Winner of the Google Gemini Hackathon Singapore.
Scenes from the Synthaesthetic Art installation at Super AI 2025 in Singapore.



Carbon Exposure documentary on Verity Nature's large-scale reforestation and nature-based carbon removal work in Kenya, restoring degraded land and planting trees at scale alongside local communities. Playback begins at the segment covering Justin Baird's work with Verity Nature.
Episode 2 of the Tesseract.art series on robotic painting and human-machine creativity.
Video accompanying the NeurIPS 2025 Creative AI Track paper, Synthaesthetic Art: Human-Machine Creative Collaboration.
The final submission film for the NeurIPS 2024 Creative AI Track paper on the real-time interactive painting robot for musicians.
Video accompanying the NeurIPS 2024 Creative AI Track paper, Redefining Artistic Boundaries: A Real-Time Interactive Painting Robot for Musicians.
A conversation between Jodie and Justin Baird.
A Tesseract session exploring mandala artwork created through the robotic painting system.
Episode 1 of the Tesseract.art series, introducing the project that turns music and performance into robotic painting.
Justin Baird presents Verity Carbon at the Sustainable Blockchain Summit (SBS Earth 2023): a Web3 enabled approach to digital measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) for carbon and co-benefit projects at scale.
The very first Tesseract proof-of-concept trial, accompanying Justin Baird's first HAI paper, an early step toward the music-to-painting and robotic art systems that became Tesseract.
Justin Baird's full Carbon Count presentation, part of his work on carbon measurement and climate technology, predating the Verity Carbon MRV platform.
All Blues Groove, a jazz performance from Justin Baird.
Trailer for 2040, Damon Gameau's documentary on regenerative climate solutions, including marine permaculture and blue carbon.
Behind the scenes on Damon Gameau's feature film 2040, a hopeful vision of the future built from solutions available today.



Justin Baird developed Sophia the Robot's AI singing voice for this duet with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.
A live performance of My Favourite Things with the Neville Young Group, from Justin Baird's work as a musician.
Baxter, a robot trained by Justin Baird, improvising the jazz standard All Blues, from his project teaching a robot to play jazz with a live trio.
Building the neural singing voice for Sophia the Robot, which made its debut in a duet with Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show.




Music of Innovation, an Accenture technology showcase performance connected to Justin Baird's emerging-technology work across Asia Pacific.
Underwater Street View, the patented technology developed at Google that brought the world's coral reefs to a billion people and featured in the Netflix documentary Chasing Coral.

Accenture's Interactive Orchestra, a real-time, personalised customer experience installation, created during Justin Baird's time leading Emerging Technology and Liquid Studios across Asia Pacific.
The full Netflix documentary Chasing Coral, which features the Underwater Street View technology Justin Baird invented at Google.
Building and launching Accenture's Liquid Studios and Innovation Hubs across Sydney, Singapore, Manila, Tokyo and Bengaluru, and delivering Technology Vision 2017.








Inside Accenture's Liquid Studio in Sydney, one of the emerging-technology studios Justin Baird launched across Asia Pacific, spanning Sydney, Singapore, Manila, Tokyo, and Bangalore.
ABC News covers Baxter, the robot Justin Baird trained to improvise jazz alongside a live band.
Baxter, the robot Justin trained to play marimba, performing composer Charlie Chan's work with a live orchestra at the Sydney Opera House.


A performance from the Accenture Interactive Orchestra, the AI robot musician project, featuring composer Charlie Chan's piece Paradise.
Charlie Chan, artistic director of the Global Orchestra, discusses artificial intelligence and music alongside the Interactive Orchestra project.
Accenture's behind-the-scenes look at the Interactive Orchestra, the AI robot musician project performed with a live orchestra.
A decade of thought-leadership keynotes and stage performances, including Man and Machine with chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov for Commonwealth Bank.






Justin Baird presents Accenture's Technology Vision 2017 in an immersive tabletop environment, delivered to more than 1,000 clients across Asia Pacific.
Google Earth on documenting the ocean with underwater Street View, the panoramic reef imaging system Justin Baird patented and launched to bring coral reefs to a global audience.
As CTO and Head of APAC, Justin took 1-Page through its ASX IPO, the first Silicon Valley startup to list on the exchange.



As Group Innovation Director at Dentsu Aegis, Justin built a multi-screen interactive tech hub from scratch and shipped product concepts like Bully Alert and Fuse.




Keynote at the Digital Media Summit on screen shifting and thought leadership, exploring how emerging technologies interact to benefit brands, agencies, and audiences.
Google Creative Sandbox 2011 in Shanghai, the technology showcase Justin Baird helped deliver with local teams after bringing the first Creative Sandbox outside the USA to Sydney.
Justin Baird, then at Google, presents his idea for radically inclusive democracy at the Battle of Big Thinking: applying radical inclusion to civic processes such as online voting to make democratic participation faster, more transparent, and more accessible worldwide. Filmed by FORA.tv.
The patented technology Justin built to take Street View underwater, bringing the world's coral reefs to a global audience.




Highlights from Justin Baird's time at Google in Asia Pacific: launching the first Android devices, bringing Creative Sandbox to Sydney and Shanghai, Street View, and green transport experiments.









ABC News 7pm Report on Show Your Vote, a platform Justin Baird created for the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, letting people around the world show their support for a climate agreement. Developed in collaboration with the UNFCCC and aired in December 2009.
The UNFCCC-sanctioned Show Your Vote platform, built in Justin's Google 20 percent time for the COP15 Copenhagen Climate Summit.



Launching the Dolby Lake Processor, used as the main processor for global events including the Olympics and Commonwealth Games.



Product work at Lake DSP, bringing digital loudspeaker processing to the professional audio market.



From Justin Baird's years as an R&D engineer at Meyer Sound: loudspeaker design, acoustic measurement, and the prediction systems behind concert halls and stadiums.



