This has quietly been a miracle month in medicine.
In the last 5 weeks we’ve got news on:
- retatrutide, the triple agonist GLP-1 from Lilly, basically melting fat and body-wide inflammation at record levels
- RevMed’s new pancreatic cancer drug showing unprecedented abilities to extend life
- small trial of a one-and-done PCSK9 gene editing therapy for slashing LDL cholesterol
- Mayo’s AI-assisted radiology showing vastly improved cancer detection
- this new therapy for metastatic solid tumors
This stuff is at varying levels of evidence. Retatrutide is ~100% on its way, other stuff needs more clinical trial data. But put it together and we’re maybe on the verge of majorly reducing the mortality of heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in America.
It is humbling to consider that if we harness just 1 millionth of the Sun’s power for AI, that will be much more than a million times the intelligence of all of humanity
🚨Breaking: NVIDIA and Sharpa have just unveiled the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot at GTC Taipei—a standardized, open hardware and software reference design for physical AI research.
The platform unifies hardware, sensing, and compute into a single out-of-the-box development stack to eliminate fragmented workflows and speed up sim-to-real deployment.
The hardware specs:
• Body: Unitree H2 Plus full-sized chassis (31 DOF)
• Hands: Dual Sharpa Wave dexterous hands (22 DOF per hand) featuring a visuo-tactile array with >1,000 pixels per fingertip and 0.02N sensitivity for complex, contact-rich manipulation.
• Brain: NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor T5000 onboard compute delivering 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS of Blackwell-architecture AI performance.
The reference platform comes preloaded with the NVIDIA GR00T 1.7 humanoid model and works natively with Isaac Lab simulation and teleoperation libraries.
Timing is everything: This massive partnership drops on the exact day of Unitree’s STAR Market IPO listing hearing in Shanghai, and amidst a proposed U.S. federal procurement ban on Chinese-made unmanned ground vehicles.
Shipping is slated to begin in October 2026 to research labs worldwide.
This is the coolest robotics model i’ve ever seen.
- Self teachable factory tasks
- Auto retries on failure
- Zip tie level precision
Robotics is finally moving from “watch this demo” to “deploy this yourself.”