I help organisations become future-fit. #Mindcandy scenario prompts are part of that. They are designed to stretch your imagination, sharpen situational awareness, and spark opportunity thinking. Find out more here.
Scenario Prompts – 29 October 2025
The scenario prompts for today are octoids, jelly fish bots, humanoids and sex bots. Sex both is particularly interesting. No question about it. They will become super sophisticated. There already is a sex bot brothel in Berlin. If you can have sex with a humanoid robot, what else do you think will be possible in the future? Map your business model and asses where robots will impact/improve your value proposition.
The other prompts to expand your lens today are:
- You are the upgrade, a summary of 25 books about AI, the conclusion is augmented natural intelligence as the way forward
- Reading human brain using sound waves
- De-skilling
- Solar hydropanels
- Cyborg shoes
- Longevity
- Building the future
You are the upgrade
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
The ‘Hands Problem’ Holding Back the Humanoid Revolution
https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-hands-problem-holding-back-the-humanoid-revolution-c1aa6123
Researchers face huge challenges in creating robotic hands equal to the real thing, but they’re getting closer. One big question: How many fingers?
Sam Altman Funding Biomedical Startup to Read Human Brain Using Sound Waves
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/sam-altman-startup-read-brain
The startup’s name is a reference to a popular idea in the tech sector which describes a hypothetical point when humans and machines “merge” together.
The Age of De-Skilling
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/ai-deskilling-automation-technology/684669/
Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?
OCTOID: Shape-shifting robot that can camouflage, move and even grab like octopus
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/shape-shifting-robot-grab-like-octopus
OCTOID’s bilayer design combines a color-changing active layer and stiff transparent layer for reversible, adaptive, multifunctional movement.
Innovation in Solar Panels: The Revolutionary Technology That Turns Light and Air into Drinking Water
A new technology is capturing global attention: solar hydropanels, capable of generating drinking water directly from the atmosphere using solar energy and air-to-water technology.
Nike’s Robotic Shoe Gets Humans One Step Closer to Cyborg
https://www.wired.com/story/nike-project-amplify/
Project Amplify is Nike’s latest attempt to put some spring in your step with help from a powered mechanism that enhances the natural movement of the human ankle and lower leg.
China unveils jellyfish-like surveillance robot built for silent underwater missions
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-jellyfish-like-drone-underwater-missions
The transparent robot mimics the movements and appearance of a real jellyfish. Its soft, umbrella-shaped body and fluid propulsion system allow it to glide quietly through the water, making it nearly undetectable to sensors or the human eye.
This Shot Gave Elderly Mice’s Skin a Glow Up. It Could Do the Same for Other Organs
Too.
A protein-based drug designed to revive the cells’ numbers gave elderly mice a skin glow up, improving blood flow and the skin’s ability to repair damage.
“We will never build a sex robot,” says Mustafa Suleyman
A conversation with the Microsoft AI boss about boundaries, digital species, and the future of chatbots.
Inside the Minds Building the Future: Notes from the Progress Conference 2025
https://hashcollision.substack.com/p/progress-conference-2025-notes-and
The emerging field of Progress Studies
