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Observers like Bill Gates believe that by 2025 we could have robots in every home. In labs across Europe, researchers are creating designs that could become the robo-butler of the future.
Bill Gates likens the current state of robotics research to the earliest days of personal computing history when he formed the then fledging company Microsoft. [...]

Big tech companies may be preparing to downsize, but startups are still hiring like mad. Particularly engineers.
It’s hard for one startup to get noticed above the crowd, but what if twenty of them pool their resources, hold a competition and throw a five day party for top recruits? That’s the goal of Gnip and 19 other Boulder, [...]

With the high cost of gasoline and diesel fuel impacting costs for automobiles, trucks, buses and the overall economy, a Temple University physics professor has developed a simple device which could dramatically improve fuel efficiency as much as 20 percent.
According to Rongjia Tao, Chair of Temple’s Physics Department, the small device consists of an electrically [...]

Advances in sensing technology will help to reduce the wastage from ‘farm to fork’ that’s contributing to the UK’s £10 billion food wastage bill, according to the UK’s Sensors & Instrumentation Knowledge Transfer Network.
 
Sensors can detect early indicators of food spoilage before visual signs are apparent, identify toxins and monitor water and nutrient concentration within [...]

A researcher from the University of Alberta has proposed an experimental electrical heating process to draw oil from largely untapped deposits, which could yield major rewards for oil production and be more environmentally sound than current extractions processes.
The process could boost worldwide oil supplies in the future and lead to lower prices for gasoline, diesel, [...]