TL;DR: NVIDIA's Audio2Face technology uses generative AI to create realistic 3D facial animations from speech audio, capturing emotion and intonation for lifelike digital characters. Open-sourced with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A former tech executive covering AI, XR and The Metaverse for Forbes. Cartwheel, a new 3D animation company founded by OpenAI ...

What if creating high-quality 3D models no longer required expensive software, specialized hardware, or years of expertise? Enter Meta’s SAM 3D, an open source AI tool that promises to provide ...

A new open-source tool is reshaping how engineers design multi-material objects. Charles Wade, a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at CU Boulder, has created a design ...

Roblox announced Monday that it’s launching the first iteration of its 3D model, dubbed “Cube,” to allow creators to create 3D objects using generative AI. The company also launched an open source ...

The 2024 Latvian adventure film Flow has bagged an Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the 2025 Academy Awards. Surely that is big news for Latvia, a small country that has now won its first Oscar with ...

A new open-source quadruped robot called Sesame Robot is making legged robotics more affordable and accessible. Developed by ...

For decades, Blender—the open-source 3D software tool—had a quirk that distinguished it from other animation software on the market. Instead of clicking to select with the mouse or trackpad’s left ...

University of California, Berkeley, has unveiled a new open-source, budget-friendly and customizable humanoid robot called Berkeley Humanoid Lite. The robot has been designed to make robotics research ...

If you’re shopping for a 3D printer, you might have considered opting for an open-source model from a company that heavily leans into this philosophy. While it’s understandable that open-source ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...