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Hailed as the future gold mine of the digital economy, the Internet of Things encompasses billions of connected objects whose data is managed on networks. How can we meet the connectivity needs of all these connected objects? How can we develop an ecosystem of applications and services that turns innovation into tangible benefits in our daily lives? That is up for debate.

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Biomimetics: can robots outperform animals?

• Will future generations eventually outperform animals in every way possible? Massive investment in robotics research has yet to provide a definitive answer to this question.
• Robots outperform animals on the level of sub-systems in categories like power, frame, actuation, sensing and control, but animals benefit from better integration of all these sub-systems and have superior overall abilities.
• At the same time, animals still dominate performance in some sub-systems: notably in the realm of intelligence (surpassing AI) and their capacity to store and convert energy.
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Autonomous cars: the five levels of autonomy

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Autonomous vehicles may soon benefit from 100 times faster neuromorphic cameras

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AgTech: start-up Bactery aims to use soil microbial fuel cells to power IoT

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IoT and robotics: the need for privacy-preserving cameras

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Photobiomodulation: using light to treat Alzheimer's disease

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