🚑Three humanoid robots join a surgical team.

Samsung Medical Center in South Korea demonstrated three humanoid robots working together during a simulated gallbladder operation using goat liver tissue.

One robot performed incisions and suturing under remote surgeon control, another handled surgical instruments, while the third managed the laparoscope and retracted tissue to keep the surgical field visible.

The project, ORchestra, aims to begin clinical trials in 2029. For now, the technology remains in development.

Meanwhile, Samsung is reportedly targeting a humanoid robot prototype unveiling at CES 2027, while Elon Musk predicts Tesla’s Optimus could outperform the best human surgeons within roughly three years.

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NASA is testing a solar sail spacecraft that uses sunlight for propulsion, without conventional fuel.

Launched aboard a Rocket Lab rocket, it demonstrates a new way to travel through space. Future solar sail technology could help spacecraft reach Mars in as little as 26 days.

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👅 Scientists built an artificial tongue that tastes and learns

Scientists have developed an artificial tongue that can recognize sweet, sour, salty and bitter tastes while improving its ability to distinguish them through learning.

What makes this technology interesting is that it combines taste sensing and machine learning in a single compact system. In experiments, it has reportedly been able to distinguish complex drinks such as coffee and cola with accuracy comparable to human performance.

The system is inspired by how our own taste receptors detect chemical signals and how the brain interprets them. Rather than simply measuring a substance, it can learn to recognize increasingly complex taste patterns.

The potential applications go far beyond food. Artificial taste sensors could help robots analyze liquids, improve food safety testing and detect chemical compounds or potential disease markers in saliva.

Researchers may also eventually explore whether this technology could contribute to solutions for people who have lost their sense of taste.

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⚠️Quantum computing may be moving beyond the freezer

Quantum technology typically requires extremely cold temperatures to function. Now, researchers have developed a tiny gold-and-glass quantum chip that can operate at room temperature.

The breakthrough could pave the way for smaller, simpler quantum devices that are easier and cheaper to build, potentially removing one of the major engineering challenges facing the technology.

This is not a complete room-temperature quantum computer. It’s a promising step toward quantum devices that could operate without the bulky cooling systems used by many existing technologies.

Quantum computing may still have a long way to go, but breakthroughs like this could bring it closer to practical, everyday applications.

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Unitree casts the new H2-X as a robot superhero: confronting a knife-wielding intruder, lifting a car to free a dummy and pushing a child-sized doll out of traffic.

These are, of course, staged scenes, not proof of autonomous rescue skills. But quite an action-movie pitch for a humanoid.

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🙃 Elon Musk just gave a huge update on Starship:

SpaceX will attempt to catch both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship ship on Flight 15.

"If we succeed, this will be the first time that an orbital launch vehicle has been fully recovered. This is a massive technology milestone"

"The only way that we can extend consciousness beyond Earth on a sustained basis is with a fully reusable orbital launch vehicle"

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🇨🇳 The Chinese drone team smashed two Guinness World Records in the US. They've brought stunning drone shows for three nights in Texas.

71,207 drones: Most drones launched in a week; 10,183 drones: Largest aerial display of a mythical creature formed by drones.

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🇨🇳 Chinese AI robotic guide dog supports full voice interaction and autonomous navigation, guiding visually impaired users safely with smart route planning and real-time voice prompts.

Do you think this tech will help more blind people go out freely? 🤔

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👩‍🚀 Four NASA volunteers have now spent an entire year sealed inside a fake Mars base.

They've grown crops, done simulated Marswalks and have only talked to their families through delayed emails.

They get out October 31st

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Elon Musk says money will become irrelevant and future currency will be measured in power, mass and energy.

“I think currency will be measured in fundamental physics metrics like, you know, power, like wattage and tonnage, mass and energy.”

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Elon Musk shared this incredible footage of how SpaceX plans to catch the Starship.

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South Korea is turning highways into power sources.

Solar noise barriers now reduce traffic sound and generate clean energy.

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🇰🇷 South Korean company Sungho SI has developed Eve Clever, an AI-powered agricultural robot for automated crop monitoring and harvesting.

Using RGB-D cameras, AI vision, and a robotic arm, it identifies ripe produce and harvests strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, and bell peppers. Its cloud-connected platform enables farmers to monitor crop conditions and manage agricultural data remotely.

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The future of construction is changing. Workers can now remotely operate towering cranes from the safety and comfort of a control room, without having to climb hundreds of feet above the ground.

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🏗️ This four-legged robot finds and drives structural screws

All3 Mantis is a 135 kg fully electric quadruped meant for construction sites. It can carry up to 100 kg while walking, climb stairs as steep as 35°, and in repeated tests it locates and drives structural screws with 0.5 mm tool-tip precision.

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🇨🇳 The agility of China’s robot dogs is beyond imagination.

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Rocket transfer before launch in China.

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A Unitree G1 is driving a go-kart.

Tesla’s Robotaxis drive themselves.

Could humanoids drive regular cars instead? 🤔

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