Scientists at Nottingham Trent University have created realistic-looking models of diseased hearts and lungs to train surgeons for performing transplants.
The team built the 3D-printed fake organs scanned from real hearts using silicone gels so they beat, bleed and breathe like real organs.
ChatGPT has been installed inside a humanoid robot to offer a glimpse of our future living alongside the machines.
Figure 01 is programmed to perform basic autonomous tasks, including conversations with humans via the OpenAI software.
The Terminator-style droid has already been commanded to tidy away crockery and serve food, albeit with a short delay from the human instruction.
Bezos-backed Figure AI plans to “push the boundaries of robot learning”.
A volcano in Iceland that erupted on Saturday for the fourth time since December is still firing smoke and bright orange lava into the air.
The eruption was the seventh near the capital Reykjavik since 2021, when geological systems laid dormant for around 800 years before again becoming active.
The first piloted flying taxi could take to the UK skies in two years under government plans to schedule regular drone deliveries by 2027.
The Department for Transport has released its Future of Flight Action Plan which also proposes airborne taxis without pilots on board by 2030.
Diners with deep pockets will soon be offered the chance to eat on the edge of space 100,000ft in the sky - at a cost of nearly £400,000 per person.
Two-Michelin-star chef Rasmus Munk says next year six tourists will get the chance to float up in a balloon’s capsule to eat, as he describes it, ‘dishes inspired by the role of space exploration’.
Plus, blood test for heart failure risk, climate security war game and world’s biggest blueberry.
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