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We ask the experts: will robots take over the world?

19 Jul 2013

Robots can do a lot for us: they can explore space or they can cut our toenails. But do advances in robotics and artificial intelligence hold hidden...

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Echo Ouyang standing in a geothermal plant room

Deep heat

16 Dec 2011

A whole range of alternative technologies will be needed to fill our huge appetite for energy and reduce our dependency on finite resources. Echo...

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