Surgeons and engineers at the University of California San Diego reached a clear milestone this month. A pair of teleoperated humanoid robots finished two separate gallbladder removal operations on large animals during a controlled preclinical trial. One case paired a single robot with a human surgeon who assisted at the table. The second case had both robots work together from start to finish with no human hands directly involved in the procedure itself.
Joshua Bird spent years tinkering with motion systems and material delivery before he landed on a setup that treats clay like a precise, buildable medium rather than something that slumps or cracks at every turn. The result is a working printer that produces double-walled cups, organic climbing-hold textures, and even delicate chainmail-style meshes in fired ceramic. These pieces carry internal structures and overhangs that traditional throwing or hand-building methods struggle to achieve without molds, supports, or constant risk of collapse.
Engineers at DJI selected the north side of Mount Everest as the proving ground for their newest aircraft. The EV50 completed multiple flights that carried research equipment well above the famous peak during the spring 2026 climbing season.
Casio released the Loopy in Japan back in 1995 as a home console aimed at young girls. It featured a built-in thermal printer that could turn any game screen into a physical sticker. Only about eleven games ever appeared for the system before Casio ended production a few years later. The hardware sat largely forgotten outside a small group of collectors until a new flash cartridge and one determined developer changed the picture.
A cloud of 24,000 rubidium atoms, chilled to within a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero, has given researchers their clearest experimental window yet into how time can arise without any external clock keeping track. The work, published in Physical Review Research, shows that a usable form of time, complete with its one-way direction, emerged directly from changes inside an isolated quantum system.