{"slug": "check-out-real-life-ai-prototypes-from-the-futures-lab", "title": "Check out real-life AI prototypes from the Futures Lab.", "summary": "Students in the Google-funded Futures Lab, a partnership with the University of Waterloo, have built working AI prototypes including an app that teaches Japanese through AI-generated stories, a real-time American Sign Language tutor, and a calisthenics training tool that uses AI camera tracking to prevent injuries. The eight-week intensive workshops bring together students from computer science, business, and natural sciences to develop tools designed to reshape how people learn. Led by Dr. Edith Law, the program aims to move beyond theory by having students co-create technology that will define the future of education and work.", "body_md": "What if you could learn Japanese through custom AI-generated stories, or practice sign language with an AI tutor that gives real-time feedback?\n\nThese are working prototypes built by students in the Google-funded Futures Lab, [a partnership with the University of Waterloo](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/google-university-of-waterloo-education-work/). Each lab is an eight-week intensive AI and user experience prototyping workshop. Students from diverse fields like computer science, business and natural sciences develop tools designed to reshape how we learn.\n\nA few highlights from the last two labs include:\n\n**Kanji Garden:** An app that teaches Japanese through immersive, AI-generated stories and visuals instead of rote memorization.**SignFluent:** A real-time American Sign Language learning tool that provides instant feedback on your form.**MuscleMemory:** An on-the-go calisthenics training tool that uses AI camera tracking to provide instant audio feedback on your exercise form, helping prevent injuries.\n\nLed by Dr. Edith Law, the Google Chair in the Future of Work and Learning, this partnership moves beyond theory, helping students co-create the very technology that will define the future of education and work.\n\nSee the projects in action and hear the students' key insights:\n\nThe MuscleMemory team learned that non-technical skills such as applied communications skills can be valuable to a product prototyping project.\n\nThe Kanji Garden team learned to approach challenges with a user-centered mindset.\n\nThe SignFluent team learned product design at the intersection of accessibility and technology.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/check-out-real-life-ai-prototypes-from-the-futures-lab", "canonical_source": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/university-waterloo-labs/", "published_at": "2026-05-29 12:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-29 12:13:53.046708+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Futures Lab", "University of Waterloo", "Google", "Dr. Edith Law", "Kanji Garden", "SignFluent", "MuscleMemory"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/check-out-real-life-ai-prototypes-from-the-futures-lab", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/check-out-real-life-ai-prototypes-from-the-futures-lab.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/check-out-real-life-ai-prototypes-from-the-futures-lab.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/check-out-real-life-ai-prototypes-from-the-futures-lab.jsonld"}}