The software giant’s BrickBot project shows how robots can learn to autonomously do complex tasks. For now it’s with Legos. The next step is in factories. Sitting at opposite corners of a small white ...

At our Brainstorm Design conference in Macau a few months ago, an architect sketched a few lines and had an AI tool turn them into a complex building design—albeit one geared more towards beauty than ...

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