The future leaves
signals in time.

Mint Renewables has received planning approval for an 800MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) near Kojonup in Western Australia.

A project called Spot Glass streams the body cameras of a Boston Dynamics Spot robot, along with a FLIR thermal camera riding on it, into the web-app slot on Meta Ray-Ban Display. The developer warns in their own code that a tunnel hostname is public, meaning anyone with the URL can watch.

The openCFW project is decompiling the Even G2 glasses and the Even R1 ring instruction by instruction, and has published a chip-level parts list naming every chip in both devices. It says the job is not done until a rebuild from its own C source produces a firmware image byte-identical to the official one.

Scientists tested five natural compounds, including curcumin and berberine, on cancer cells and healthy muscle cells. All disrupted cancer cell energy production and pushed many cells into a non-dividing state, with curcumin showing the strongest overall effect and a relatively favorable safety profile, while some other compounds caused more toxicity. This is cell-level research.

Marinus Link held a sod-turning ceremony in North West Tasmania to mark the start of expanded construction. According to the headline, the event moves Tasmania's 'Battery of the Nation' plan closer.

An AI-assisted scoping review examining code sharing in clinical prediction model research appears via Nature Medicine. The feed supplies no methods, scope, or findings, so no results can be reported here.

Nature Medicine published an addendum concerning aberrant epithelial GREM1 expression initiating colonic tumorigenesis from cells outside the stem cell niche. No further details were provided beyond the headline, so the specific findings cannot be confirmed.

SafeWorld has emerged from stealth with a platform that provides testing and simulation software to help enterprises evaluate and deploy robots safely and responsibly.

Lowe's has launched drone delivery with Wing and DoorDash, a new fulfillment method that delivers select home improvement items directly to DIY and pro customers in as fast as 20 minutes. The pilot is now live at the Lowe's store in Matthews, North Carolina, adding to the retailer's same-day fulfillment options.

South Korean entertainment technology company Galaxy Corporation deployed 16 humanoid robots for a synchronized performance in New York's Times Square, which it described as a K-pop "Peace Flash Mob", part of a demonstration combining robotics with K-pop and other entertainment content.

The European TALOS project, funded through Horizon Europe, has completed three years of testing autonomous robots and AI for solar power plant maintenance, demonstrating the technology at sites in Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands. The system monitors solar plants, identifies performance problems and determines which maintenance jobs are economically worthwhile.

PhoneBot repurposes old smartphones as components for a two-legged robot. Smartphones combine cameras, motion sensors and powerful processors in a pocket-sized device, and the article says these features could make them useful robot components, reducing the need to buy and connect separate sensors, processors or other electronics; further details are not provided.

A free update for the VR fishing game Real VR Fishing arrives next week, bringing Halloween-themed content including spooky maps, haunted fish, mixed reality features, hand tracking and more.

AI research company Odyssey announced Odyssey-3, described as its most powerful world model to date, aimed at understanding, predicting, and interacting with physical and virtual environments to control robots, humanoids, vehicles, and drones. The company says the model represents a significant advance toward general-purpose intelligence.

Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, and the Arab Federation for Digital Economy (AFDE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to advance the deployment, localization and commercialization of embodied AI and robotic solutions in the United Arab Emirates and the wider GCC and Middle East markets.

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope is shedding light on brown dwarfs, objects that blur the line between stars and exoplanets. New findings published in The Astrophysical Journal show these dark, cloudy worlds have chemically rich atmospheres.

Upside Parts, a Massachusetts-based custom manufacturing company, released an analysis of more than 30,000 3D-printed parts produced across hundreds of customer orders, examining how robotics companies use on-demand 3D printing. Robotics customers accounted for 82.3 percent of total part volume, as robotics production expands across the US and demand for faster production grows.