Introducing AURA, A Reasoning Engine for Design Exploration and Synthesis by Braid

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Tokyo 2026

This episode is the opening keynote from CDFAM Tokyo 2026, presented by Guido Cossu and Ivo Timóteo of Braid.
Braid was founded in Tokyo in 2020 by a team drawn from physics, applied mathematics, computational geometry, large-scale simulation and machine learning. At the time, the prevailing view in AI held that scaling end-to-end learning on ever-larger datasets would solve most problems. Braid took a different position: engineering design, where physical accuracy, safety and manufacturability are non-negotiable, requires reasoning from the…