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Scenario prompt 13 August 2025
The prompt for today are robot skin, durable, self-healing plastic, AR enabled packaging, skin in a syringe, WARP drive, super glue, a protein evolution engine, self organising tiny robots, quantum Ayurveda and your are the upgrade.
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Fabric that mimics skin gives robots sense of touch
A new electronic textile under development aims to improve robots’ sense of touch.
New high-strength plastic promises endless recycling without losing quality
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/new-plastic-with-extreme-durability-reusability
Aromatic Thermosetting Copolyester (ATSP) is an ultra-durable, recyclable plastic that can heal itself, recover its shape, and maintain strength across repeated use.
Leveling Up Your Packaging With Augmented Reality
Packaging is often the first handshake between a product and a person
3D Printed “Skin In A Syringe” Offers Hope For Burn Recovery
https://scienceblog.com/3d-printed-skin-in-a-syringe-offers-hope-for-burn-recovery/
Scientists have created a living gel that can be 3D printed directly into skin grafts, potentially offering a way to restore healthy, scar-free skin after severe burns.
Scientists Announce a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible. Seriously.
Humans are one step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds.
AI Designs Underwater Super Glue That Grips Like a Barnacle
https://singularityhub.com/2025/08/11/ai-designs-underwater-super-glue-that-grips-like-a-barnacle/
Super-adhesive hydrogels such as these that stick strongly to irregular and wet surfaces could be transformational for many biomedical applications
Scientists build an “evolution engine” to rapidly reprogram proteins
https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2025/20250807-schultz-evolution-engine.html
A new platform developed at Scripps Research enables fast, scalable protein evolution—opening the door to new therapies and diagnostics, and to predicting resistance mutations across many disease areas.
Tiny robots use sound to self-organize into intelligent groups
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-tiny-robots-intelligent-groups.html
An international team of scientists has taken a page from nature’s playbook to model micro-sized robots that use sound waves to coordinate into large swarms that exhibit intelligent-like behavior.
Greenspace Herbs unveils ‘Quantum Ayurveda’ technology platform to map bioactive signatures from plant compounds
https://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx
Greenspace Herbs, a leading botanical ingredients company, announced the commercial launch of Quantum Ayurveda, an advanced technology platform that enhances traditional herbal ingredients using quantum resonance principles.
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.
