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Industrial mishaps are not rare but caution is prime. Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk has lashed out at the media for sensationalizing an old injury caused by a robot at his Giga Texas factory in Austin, Texas. He claimed that the media was trying to link the incident to his futuristic Optimus robots, which he said would usher in a new era of abundance.

The incident, which happened two years ago, involved a software engineer who was programming software for robots that cut car parts from freshly cast aluminum. While he was working, he was unaware that one of the robots was still active while the other two were disabled for maintenance. The active robot then attacked the engineer, pinning him down and clawing at his back and arm. The attack left a trail of blood on the factory floor, as well as an open wound on the engineer’s left hand.

Scientists pave the way for new culinary frontiers.


This E-tongue can identify four tastes – saltiness, sourness, astringency, and sweetness – in just a tiny bit of food, and uses deep-learning technology to understand taste. It even works well with different kinds of wines.

The E-tongue is like a super tool that can be used in different industries like food, drinks, makeup, and medicine, explained the researchers in a press release by Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST).

“The novel technology developed in this study is an electronic tongue system that integrates sensors and deep learning and measures complex flavors, and it is a sensor-deep-learning technology that can quantitatively evaluate taste, which was difficult in the past,” said Professor Kyung-In Jang from the DGIST Department of Robotics and Mechanical and Electronic Engineering.