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Remote-controlled Salmon Farms to Operate Off Norway in 2020

Giant, instrumented pens will monitor the health of millions of fish and feed them automatically

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Here's how these cubeoids could harness waste heat from steel plants

AI SpaceFactory Wins NASA's 3D-Printed Extraterrestrial Habitats Challenge

AI SpaceFactory bests Penn State in a one-of-a-kind competition to see whose innovative building techniques could someday allow humans to live on Mars or the moon

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