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 – 10 October 2025
The scenario prompt for the weekend is robotics. The DARPA call for biohyrbids, Softbank investing over 5 billion. Robotics as embodied AI. What do you think humanoid robotics will do for elderly care, hospitality, etc. in the next 5 to 10 years. What will it do to your business model? Will you go first, embrace it, or lag, avoid, or the third option and go contra? You have to take a position on the pendulum of change.
The other prompts to expand your lens today are:
- You are the upgrade, a summary of 25 books on AI
- Biodegradable circuits
- Organic solar
- The moon economy
- Your subconscious mind
- Hydro haptics
- Biohybrid robots
- Softbank investing in robotics
- The hidden brain science behind innovation
- Information as a fundamental part of the universe
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.
Green electronics thanks to biodegradable circuit boards
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-green-electronics-biodegradable-circuit-boards.html
As part of the EU research project, they developed a wood-based substrate for PCBs that can compete with conventional epoxy resin—and is also completely biodegradable.
Solar jackpot: Cambridge organic breakthrough helps panels catch more sunlight
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/cambridge-organic-solar-panel-breakthrough
Solar cell film made from the molecule material achieved “close-to-unity charge collection efficiency.
New DARPA ‘field guide’ looks for ways to jump-start a moon economy
If there is commercial value, at least based on what we now know, I would argue it’s the moon’s subsurface
Your Subconscious Mind May Be Distorting Reality, New Study Suggests
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a68023862/subconscious-premonitions-anomalous-experiences/
The majority of people have experienced a psychic phenomenon, according to new research. Here’s what those strange “gut feelings” could actually mean. Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/open-up-to-your-natural-intelligence/
New haptic system lets soft objects respond to taps, squeezes and twists
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-haptic-soft.html
Hydro haptics.
US DARPA Ready To Fund Biohybrid Robots
https://interestingengineering.com/videos/us-darpa-ready-to-fund-biohybrid-robots
The US DARPA is sending out a call for companies researching half synthetic, half biological robotics. The goal is to advance robotics research beyond anything it’s currently capable of.
SoftBank Expands AI Footprint With Multibillion-Dollar Robotics Deal
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/softbank-to-buy-abbs-robotics-unit-in-5-38-billion-deal-f95024c8
Tech conglomerate SoftBank Group has agreed to a $5.4 billion deal for the industrial-robotics-focused business of ABB, a bid to combine the potential of artificial intelligence with robots.
The Hidden Brain Science Behind Innovation Failure in 80% of Organizations
Your innovation lab isn’t failing because you lack smart people. It’s failing because you’re fighting biology.
Information Could Be a Fundamental Part of the Universe—and May Explain Dark Energy and Dark Matter
The universe may not only be geometry and energy—but also memory. And in that memory, every moment of cosmic history may still be written. Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/play/
