Humanoid robots have performed surgery on live animals for the very first time in an astonishing new breakthrough.

As part of a pre-clinical trial, two humanoid robots were remotely operated by surgeons to perform keyhole surgery on pigs.

In one operation, a teleoperated robot was assisted by a human to remove a pig's gallbladder.

Meanwhile, a first-of-its-kind operation saw two robots working side by side in a robot-robot team.

The Unitree G1 robots, nicknamed Surgie, were fitted with specialised adapters so they could hold surgical tools but were otherwise unmodified.

The researchers say Surgie is just as precise as a conventional surgical robot, but only costs a fraction of the price and is far easier to set up and use.

And with a growing shortfall of skilled surgeons to meet patients' needs, the researchers say the bots could one day be used to operate on humans.

Senior author Professor Michael Yip, of UC San Diego, says: 'You can imagine these robots being deployed in remote communities where staffing is challenging, or in austere environments like search and rescue scenarios.'

Humanoid robots have performed surgery on live animals for the very first time in an astonishing new breakthrough

The Unitree G1 robots were fitted with specialised adapters to hold surgical tools and remotely controlled by a human operator 

The researchers began by testing the robots' capacity for fine motor skills, having them handle inanimate objects and standard surgical equipment.

Once the team was satisfied, the robots graduated to performing real surgical procedures on anaesthetised pigs.

According to a report published in the journal Nature, both operations were completed successfully.

At one point there was some minor bleeding, but the robots were able to quickly stem the flow.

In fact, the researchers say that they were 'surprised' at just how well the robots functioned.

Controlling the movements of a humanoid felt more natural than moving the arms of a large surgical robot, especially for people not trained on those specialised systems.

This raises the possibility that humanoid robots could soon be a key part of surgical teams working on real human patients.  

Professor Yip says: 'Remotely operated and autonomous humanoid robots have real potential for amplifying access to critical surgeries to which patients would otherwise not have access.'

In one surgery, a humanoid robot was assisted by a human while it performed a gallbladder removal on an anaesthetised pig 

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The researchers say that these humanoid robots are cheaper, lighter, and easier to control than traditional robotic surgical systems 

Surgeons already use specialised robotic surgery systems equipped with three or four robotic arms to operate on patients.

The problem is that these systems can weigh up to 800kg (1,800lb), require a large team to set up, and take up a lot of space in the operating room, which usually needs to be retrofitted to accommodate it.

By contrast, Surgie is just five feet (1.5m) tall and weighs just 27kg (60lb), even with its specialised adapters fitted.

This makes these compact humanoids a perfect option for situations where cumbersome traditional robots just aren't feasible.

Co-author Dr Shanglei Liu, a surgeon at UC San Diego, says: 'It's a fraction of the cost and it takes a fraction of the space in an operating room. So it’s easy to deploy, anywhere from rural areas to the battlefield, and even to space.'

However, the robots are far from perfect, and the researchers say there are still a few problems that need ironing out.

Most notably, Surgie had to be recalibrated multiple times throughout the operation; this took up valuable time and meant the surgery took a lot longer than expected.

Similarly, the latency, a delay between the operator's input and the robot's output, will need to be reduced before the bots are fully practical.

In the future, robots like these could be used to treat humans in areas where large surgical teams and specialised robots aren't feasible 

Yet the team are extremely optimistic that these issues are solvable in the near future, pointing out that the first robotic keyhole surgery took six hours to complete a task that now takes 30 minutes.

Even if Surgie isn't quite ready to put a human under the knife, the researchers say that it could have a bright future as an assistant.

Since the humanoid bots can walk about and perform most tasks that a human can do, they would be perfect for fetching tools and cleaning up after an operation.

Professor Yip adds: 'Many communities struggle with adequate staffing on the surgical team, which means patients are not being treated.

'Our goal is an operating theatre of the future, where humanoid robots and humans work side by side as an integrated team to deliver procedures to those in need.'

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Orb shape-shifts to become balloon, to relax watchers, July 10, 2026, UFO UAP Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 10, 2026

Location of sighting: Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA

Source: NUFORC

 

Guys, bear with me on this one...you wont like what I have to say...but its 100% accurate. Plasmoid UFOs or energy entities as I call them...can shapeshift and change into any living or non living thing they want...and they do this sometimes if they think they want to see who is talking to them, and let them see it, but without knowing who they really are. This is something UFO researchers might protest against, however I have experienced such things first hand, and my son saw it hovering around me circling 7 times over me (red star balloon with string...just out of my reach) and hid in the tree, then after I asked it to come back out, it did and circled me a few more times and then flew off over the roof of the neighbors...this was at night in Bountiful, Utah last year in my back yard. I called it, it came, it was intelligent, and behaved nothing like a balloon!

 

Here we have just such an occurrence. This plasmoid UFO is faking a string, however it doesn't have a string but instead a glowing light of plasma not shooting from it, but an extension of itself. Plasmoids are sensitive to your emotions...if you panic, they panic, if you are amazed, they feel you feelings too. Telepathic remember? So yes, they do the balloon shapeshift to get close, let you see them...which gives you what you wanted, and to read your thoughts. So next time, continue talking to it if its a balloon, it may respond by showing you its true self...if it trusts you. 

 

Believe it or not...

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Bipedal Alien 8 inches tall standing on Mars watching rover in NASA photo, UFO UAP Sighting News.

Date of discovery: July 22, 2026

Location of discovery: Mars Perseverance 1912

Source Photo: 

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Based on all the past discoveries I made on Mars using NASA photo, I now believe that Mars had more than one species and that these species may have been brutal enemies. One such species is seen in the screenshot above, which shows a living white entity, bipedal, standing and watch as the rover passes it. Its no more than 8 inches tall at most and fits the entrances to the structures I found near it, which were also about 8-10 inches tall. Unlike other structures I reported a few weeks ago, which had entrances of 2-2.5 meters high. I also found some large faces carved in stone, maybe the smaller species or perhaps faces of the larger species. 

 

From the faces found on Mars in the past by me and other researchers, I find that there are at least four or more different species that once lived on Mars together. Not advanced like us perhaps, but held back in technology due to their bitter rivalries with each other. 

 

Scott C. Waring - UFO Sightings Daily 

The skull above is about 1 foot in size.

 

The entrances in the building below are only about 8-10 inches high.

The golden statue, only 8 inches tall, below has an alien face on it, a body, and a throne-like chair.

The head statue below, fallen on its side with its top cut wide open is about 1 meter from chin to forehead cut area. 

The foot below is about 1.5 feet from toe to heel, a foot of a larger species. 

The doorway below is only about 7 inches tall and 7 inches wide. 

The face carved in stone below shows two eyes, a huge wide nose, mouth, chin and a big forehead with lots of hair. But was it made by the tiny 8 inch tall species? I think yes.

 

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Don't think it could never happen, but the possibility of a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is far from unimaginable. If such an event were to occur, it could cripple the technological backbone of modern civilization. Power grids, communications, transportation, and financial systems could all be severely disrupted, leaving millions without essential services. In the aftermath, widespread confusion, shortages, and social unrest could follow as governments struggle to restore critical infrastructure. 

This report of 'Redacted' examines the effects of a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP), an intense burst of electromagnetic energy generated when a nuclear weapon is detonated between approximately 30 and 400 kilometers (20–250 miles) above Earth's surface. 

Unlike a nuclear explosion at ground level, a high-altitude detonation produces little direct blast or thermal damage. Instead, its primary effect is the creation of a powerful electromagnetic pulse capable of disrupting or permanently damaging electrical and electronic systems across an enormous area. 

When a nuclear weapon detonates at high altitude, it generates three distinct electromagnetic pulse components: 

• E1 – Fast Pulse: Lasting only a few billionths of a second, the E1 pulse is the most destructive to modern electronics. It can disable computers, communication networks, vehicles equipped with sensitive electronics, and the control systems that operate electrical power grids. 

• E2 – Intermediate Pulse: The E2 pulse is comparable to a powerful lightning strike. Although it can damage electronic equipment, many systems already incorporate lightning protection, making this component generally less destructive than E1. 

• E3 – Slow Pulse: The E3 pulse lasts from several seconds to a few minutes. It disturbs Earth's magnetic field and induces powerful electrical currents in long conductors such as power lines, pipelines, railway systems, and undersea cables. These currents can severely damage high-voltage transformers and other critical infrastructure.  

A large-scale high-altitude EMP could: 

Disable significant portions of the electrical grid. Disrupt internet, cellular, and radio communications. Interfere with GPS navigation and satellite operations. Damage satellites through radiation and electromagnetic effects. Interrupt banking and financial transactions. Disrupt transportation systems that depend on electronic controls. Severely impact emergency services, water distribution, fuel supplies, and food logistics. 

The most well-known demonstration of an EMP occurred during the Starfish Prime nuclear test on July 9, 1962. The United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear device approximately 400 kilometers (250 miles) above the Pacific Ocean. 

Although the explosion occurred far above the Earth, its electromagnetic effects were detected roughly 1,450 kilometers (900 miles) away in Hawaii. Streetlights failed, burglar alarms were triggered, communication systems experienced disruptions, and several satellites in orbit were damaged or suffered shortened operational lifespans. 

Conclusion:

A high-altitude EMP is fundamentally different from a conventional nuclear attack. Rather than destroying cities through blast and heat, its strategic purpose is to disable the electronic infrastructure upon which modern society depends. While the immediate physical destruction on the ground may be limited, the cascading failure of electrical, communication, transportation, and financial systems could create widespread disruption across an entire region.

  

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Cosmic gymnastics: Study reveals how our Milky Way once underwent a dramatic FLIP

• READ MORE: Scientists detect SUGAR in the centre of the Milky Way

By WILIAM HUNTER, SENIOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY REPORTER

While the Milky Way might look calm and stable today, scientists say a grand display of cosmic gymnastics once turned our galaxy upside down.

Researchers have discovered that the Milky Way once underwent a dramatic 'major disc flip'.

At some point in the distant past, the vast stellar disc changed orientation by more than 90 degrees – dragging our solar system along for the ride.

According to the results of a new study, this likely happened after a violent head–on collision with another drifting galaxy.

About 10 to 11 billion years ago, the Milky Way smashed into a massive dwarf galaxy known as Gaia–Sausage–Enceladus, or the Gaia Sausage for short.

We already know this impact knocked billions of stars into looping sausage–shaped paths, but researchers now say it may have also flipped our galaxy.

Lead author Dr Kirill Batrakov, of Durham University, says: 'We already know that the Milky Way had a massive head–on collision.

'So, we think that the Milky Way disc likely flipped in the past.'

Scientists say the Milky Way underwent a dramatic 'disc flip' in the distant past. These pictures show a simulation of a Milky Way–like galaxy undergoing a similar flip, starting from the oldest image (z=3.4) to its final position (z=0)

This revelation about our galaxy's past transformations actually emerged from the quest to solve one of the Milky Way's greatest puzzles.

The majority of the stars in our galaxy are located in the flat spiral disk, a region about 120,000 light–years in diameter and 1,000 light–years thick.

This is surrounded by the sparsely populated stellar halo, an enormous region roughly 300,000 light–years across, but extending over a million light–years in diameter at its absolute outer limits.

This is largely made up of stars that have been pulled into the Milky Way from other galaxies over time through galactic mergers.

What makes the Milky Way's stellar halo so unusual is that it rotates incredibly slowly compared to other galaxies.

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission found that it could take up to a billion years for a star in this outermost region to make its way around the galactic core.

Until now, researchers have had no idea why this would be the case.

In their paper, presented this week at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Birmingham, researchers analysed the simulated evolution of 25 Milky Way–like galaxies.

Scientists think that this ancient flip could explain why the stellar halo, the outermost disc of the galaxy, rotates so slowly. Pictured: An artist's impression of the Milky Way seen from above 

The flip may have been caused by a collision between the Milky Way and a dwarf galaxy called Gaia–Sausage–Enceladus between 10 and 11 billion years ago. Pictured: Artists' impression of the collision with the simulated positions and motions of the stars in Gaia–Enceladus shown with yellow arrows

The scientists followed these simulated galaxies' evolution over billions of years and watched how they changed.

They discovered that the galaxies with the slowest stellar halos had two things in common: they had all had a head–on collision with another galaxy, and they had all undergone a major disc flip.

The fact that the Milky Way has both a glacial stellar halo and a head–on collision in its ancient past, therefore, makes it likely that the galaxy also underwent a disc flip.

This means that the galaxy we recognise today might have looked and behaved dramatically differently several billion years ago.

'A disc flip also means most of the Milky Way's stars once moved on very different trajectories than they do today – possibly even our own Sun,' says Dr Batrakov.

'Meaning our "stable" spot in the galaxy might not have been so stable for the Solar System's whole lifetime.'

Since we live inside the Milky Way, we can study its workings better than any other galaxy in the cosmos, making it the perfect laboratory for testing ideas about galaxy evolution.

With this extra knowledge about our own galaxy's history, scientists can start to make more sense of the baffling variety of cosmic structures out in the universe.

These images show the evolution of a Milky Way–like galaxy that did not have a collision with another galaxy and, therefore, did not experience a disc flip

Dr Batrakov adds: 'Finding that its disc flipped adds a new chapter to that story, one we must account for when placing the Milky Way in a broader context of other galaxies.

'What excites me the most is that this complex history can be reconstructed just from present–day observations.'

The researchers also found that the Milky Way's stellar halo is closely linked to the rotation of the invisible, but critical, dark matter halo.

This hidden disc of undetectable matter makes up the majority of the mass in the galaxy and holds the structure together like a gravitational glue.

That means understanding the origin of our own slow–moving stellar halo could help shed light on one of science's greatest mysteries.

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The new study, which appeared in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, argues that widespread aquatic deoxygenation—reduced levels of dissolved oxygen in oceans and coastal waters, lakes, rivers, and streams—is increasingly becoming a problem, and one that influences nine other crucial environmental processes.

These processes are all included in what is known as the Planetary Boundaries framework, a science-based tool that outlines the requirements of a safe operating space for humanity. Introduced in 2009 by Earth system scientists led by Johan Rockström, this framework identifies nine critical environmental processes that regulate Earth’s stability.

Specifically, the nine planetary boundaries outlined in this framework are climate change, biosphere integrity, land use changes, biogeochemical flow of nutrients, ocean acidification, freshwater changes, atmospheric aerosol loading, stratospheric ozone depletion, and pollution.

Now, the Scripps researchers behind the recent study say they believe dissolved oxygen levels should also be formally included in this framework.

Aquatic Deoxygenation is a Growing Concern

Erica Ferrer, a Scripps Oceanography alumna and current postdoctoral scholar at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and lead author of the new study, says that her team’s work “is designed to elevate the profile of aquatic deoxygenation as a global threat and show that it does not operate in isolation.”

“The health and stability of our planet depends on the health and stability of aquatic ecosystems, which need oxygen to function normally,” Ferrer said.

Driving this growing problem, the new research says, is the excessive influx of nutrient pollution into water bodies, as well as anthropogenic warming, and changes occurring in natural ventilation systems within deep ocean waters.

With depleting oxygen levels scientists are seeing, longer-term changes to chemical and biological processes that regulate our planet’s climate are expected to occur. The decline, Ferrer and her colleagues argue, is also likely to impact a diverse range of aquatic organisms and ecosystems.

Even ocean mammals that acquire air at the surface are likely to be impacted, since deoxygenation can either cause the relocation or outright depletion of the organisms that make up their diets. This, in addition to causing severe damage to habitats and alterations to the food webs they depend on.

Ferrer and her colleague, study co-author and Scripps biological oceanographer Lisa Levin, are hopeful that their findings will encourage a deeper level of engagement on the potential ramifications of aquatic oxygen loss, and how other environmental challenges outlined in the planetary boundaries framework can act as multipliers, rather than separate existential concerns.

“Adding aquatic deoxygenation to the Planetary Boundaries framework will help us understand its impacts on Earth system stability,” Ferrer said in a statement, adding that mitigation of ocean deoxygenation impacts “represents a critical component of maintaining biodiversity and climate.”

Levin, Ferrer, and their colleagues’ study, “Abundant interactions and feedbacks between aquatic deoxygenation and the other planetary boundaries suggest ‘unsafe’ levels of oxygen loss with far‐reaching impacts,” appeared in the journal Limnology and Oceanography on June 30, 2026.

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Casimir Werk Saw a UFO in 1905 and Then the Mystery Got Even Deeper

By Greg Hand

James Herbert’s model airships. Including the one seen by Casimir Werk, were constructed of paper and filled with hot air from a paraffin lamp. From "Cincinnati Post," August 23, 1905

Casimir Werk, grandson of the millionaire soap maker and vintner for whom Werk Road is named, saw a UFO one balmy Sunday evening in 1905. The unidentified flying object was soon revealed as an identified flying object but yielded an even bigger mystery.

According to the Cincinnati Enquirer [August 28, 1905] Werk watched an unidentified object he believed might be an airship explode while it flew westward on the previous evening:

“Mr. Werk was standing in front of his parents’ home on La Feuille avenue, Westwood, about 6 o’clock, when he saw a peculiar formation in the sky. He secured field glasses and soon had them focused upon the object which he believes to have been an airship. He claims it was about 100 feet long and shaped like a projectile.”

While following the flying object with his binoculars, Werk watched it rock up and down like a ship tossed by waves in the ocean. It then burst into flame, the entire structure consumed, and fell from the sky, lost in the evening haze. The Enquirer was unable to locate anyone else who saw the thing, nor anyone who found any wreckage:

“The police knew nothing of the doings up above the sky line of Cincinnati, nor did the Coroner receive any report of the mangled remains of an airship operator being found within the limits of the county.”

Apparently, neither Werk nor the Enquirer reporter had read the previous Wednesday’s Cincinnati Post [August 23,1905], containing a lengthy feature about a teenage boy in Camp Washington and his attempts to build an airship capable of carrying passengers.

“Undaunted by poverty, working alone on a principle he believes will ultimately succeed, even beyond his fondest dreams; toiling only in spare hours, because he had to earn a living, James Herbert, scarcely more than 18, of 3067 Colerain-av., is building an airship, which he thinks will fly.”

The Post described how young Herbert constructed large balloons out of paper, filled them with air heated by a paraffin-fueled burner, and directed their flight by a spring-powered propeller.

On Sunday, the very day Werk saw his mystery airship, the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune [August 27, 1905] published its own profile of young James Herbert and claimed the young inventor was inspired by a contest sponsored by the newspaper:

“James started in several years ago when a children’s contest was on in The Commercial Tribune and his drawing of an airship model and ideas of the same were accepted by The Commercial Tribune and printed with his photo.”

Herbert, according to this report, had already launched several airship models of rather impressive size:

“A few days ago one twenty feet long and seven feet in diameter was sent up from an empty lot near Herbert’s home. Its weight was fifteen pounds, and its lifting power an additional fifteen pounds. It came to earth near a large building in Lick Run, the gas having given out. It was made of heavy tissue paper.”

James Herbert prepares one of his large model airships for launch.

From "Cincinnati Post," August 23, 1905

A Camp Washington resident informed the Enquirer [August 29, 1905] that Werk’s mystery airship was among the experimental flights of young Herbert. The Cincinnati Times-Star [August 29, 1905] calmed a very much relieved Werk by proving he had not been hallucinating:

“‘That’s exactly it,’ said Casimir Werk, jun., of Westwood, when the airship he saw Sunday evening was described to him Tuesday by a Times-Star reporter. ‘Yes, sir, that is just what I saw Sunday evening. No, I have not heard from young Herbert, the inventor. I never heard of him before.’”

The Times-Star interviewed James Herbert’s father, who expressed a frustrated resignation about his son’s aeronautical obsession:

“‘I’m down on this airship business. I don’t take any stock in it and pay little attention to this thing of trying to fly around in the air like birds.’ Such is the opinion of George Herbert, father of Jas. Herbert, the Colerain avenue lad who is bent on building a craft with which to navigate the upper air.”

The Enquirer chided the skeptics who refused to believe Casimir Werk:

“Those who saw fit to twit Mr. Werk yesterday for having seen what they did not will now have to back water.”

With that, James Herbert, boy inventor, fades from the annals of history. Only one additional newspaper story, printed in the Enquirer [September 2, 1905], references James Herbert’s airships, but doesn’t mention him by name, identifying him only as “the young Cumminsville inventor.” That story describes two bright lights floating high above League Park—later to be rebuilt as Crosley Field—at 7:30 p.m., either remaining quite steady or traveling against a “stiff breeze.” Among the witnesses was Cincinnati Police Lieutenant John W. Scahill, who asserted that the lights were attached to a controlled aircraft and not to a kite or balloon. (The Reds were in Chicago that day, losing 3-2.)

Here is the mystery: There is no record of a James Herbert living on Colerain Avenue anywhere near this time. The censuses of 1900 and 1910 record no one by that name at all. None of the city directories from that time list a James Herbert on or near Colerain Avenue. The census and city directories do record several George Herberts, but none of them live on Colerain Avenue and none have a son named James. Additionally, the Sanborn Insurance Map for 1904 shows 3067 Colerain as a vacant lot.

The Commercial Tribune claims that James Herbert got his start in aircraft design by entering a children’s contest “seven years ago” with his portrait and a picture of an airship printed in the newspaper. In fact, the Commercial Tribune did sponsor a contest, “What Is Your Idea Of A Successful Flying Machine?”, in April 1899, six years previous. The winning entries were published on April 16 and April 23, with occasional late entries appearing later in the year. None were submitted by anyone named James Herbert.

It’s unlikely the newspapers got James Herbert’s name wrong. Miraculously, for that time, three newspapers spelled his name identically. Two newspapers cited the same address. The mystery deepens. Whatever became of Cincinnati’s airship inventor, James Herbert?

It’s not like Cincinnatians had never seen an airship, as motorized balloons were called back then. Even as James Herbert was enjoying his 15 minutes of fame, the Hamilton County Fair announced that either Roy Knabenshue or Leo Stevens, two competing dirigible pilots, would fly around the Carthage Fairgrounds that September.

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Trump directs agencies to waive NDAs for former employees involved in UFO investigations: report

The nondisclosure agreements have proved an impediment to government investigations into UAPs, also known as UFOs, and the directive is intended to ease this source of reluctance.

By Kevin Killough

President Donald Trump has directed federal agencies to waive the nondisclosure agreements that former government employees and contractors signed while they were working on investigations involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), also known as UFOs. 

The directives were given to the Department of War and the intelligence community, Fox News reported, citing unnamed sources. 

The order asks that the agencies allow former government employees and contractors who have relevant information about UAPs to come forward to meet with representatives of Trump's UAP taskforce, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Any NDAs they signed would be waived under the order. 

A senior administration official stressed that the directive is not a "declassification directive" and only allows employees and contractors to come forward through government channels. 

The NDAs have proved an impediment to government investigations into UAPs, and the directive is intended to ease this source of reluctance. 

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800 Million Years Ago, a Catastrophic Asteroid Breakup Rained Fire on the Inner Solar System

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