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(NewScientist)
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Forget genetically modified crops – the great environmental concerns of the future should be nanomaterials, manmade viruses and biomimetic robots.
So say researchers, policymakers and environmental campaigners, who have identified 25 potential future threats to the environment in the UK, which they say researchers should focus on.
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This is amusing:
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Robert Full, who works on biomimetic robots at the University of California, Berkeley, says autonomous cars are likely to pose a threat before autonomous robots inspired by geckos do
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Or herds of autonomous shopping carts that, despite everyones best efforts to corral them still manage to end up rolling away, only to end up overturned on someones front lawn or drowned in a local creek.