The best artificial intelligence design of 2026

Fast Company named Conway's Arcade by Special Guest X for Google the winner of the artificial intelligence category in its 2026 Innovation by Design Awards. Conway's Arcade is an AI-powered arcade cabinet that generates endless, ever-changing remixes of classic games including Space Invaders and Breakout. Other honorees include Adobe Firefly, Google Maps: Immersive Navigation, Quilter's Project Speedrun, RapidAI's Rapid Aortic, InnerPlant's CropVoice, Sandbar's Stream, Galerie Nainoa, the Texas A&M University Dementia & Alzheimer's Research Initiative, and the Kinfolk Tech Foundation's For Those Who Come After.

The artificial intelligence https://www.fastcompany.com/section/artificial-intelligence category of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards https://www.fastcompany.com/innovation-by-design/list honors systems, platforms, and UIs that leverage algorithms to positively impact the way we live. This year’s winner, Conway’s Arcade https://www.fastcompany.com/91589915/conways-arcade-innovation-by-design-2026 by Special Guest X for Google, is an AI https://www.fastcompany.com/section/artificial-intelligence -powered arcade cabinet that generates endless, ever-changing remixes of classic games like Space Invaders and Breakout. See all of the honorees below. Galerie Nainoa Nainoa http://www.galerienainoa.com Project Speedrun Quilter https://www.quilter.ai/project-speedrun Rapid Aortic RapidAI https://www.rapidai.com/rapid-aortic-solutions Stream Sandbar https://www.sandbar.com/stream Adobe Firefly Adobe https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly.html CropVoice InnerPlant https://innerplant.com/ Dementia & Alzheimer’s Research Initiative Texas A&M University https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/16/texas-am-launches-statewide-dementia-research-initiative-to-tackle-alzheimers-crisis/ For Those Who Come After Kinfolk Tech Foundation https://www.kinfolktech.org/exhibitions/for-those-who-come-after Google Maps: Immersive Navigation Google https://www.google.com/maps/about/ navigate-easier-and-smarter