Illustration Photo: Harvesting Salmon off Lewis in Scotland (credits: Water Alternatives / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Harvesting Salmon off Lewis in Scotland (credits: Water Alternatives / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Text Messages Give Farmers Irrigation Advice (credits: Oussama Benbila for MEC/USAID / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Text Messages Give Farmers Irrigation Advice (credits: Oussama Benbila for MEC/USAID / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Plastic pollution in Samana, Dominican Republic (credits: rey perezoso / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Plastic pollution in Samana, Dominican Republic (credits: rey perezoso / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Illustration Photo: ORNL Launches Summit Supercomputer on June 8, 2018. Summit will provide unprecedented computing power for research in energy, advanced materials and artificial intelligence (AI), among other domains, enabling scientific discoveries that were previously impractical or impossible. (Credit: OLCF at ORNL / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: ORNL Launches Summit Supercomputer on June 8, 2018. Summit will provide unprecedented computing power for research in energy, advanced materials and artificial intelligence (AI), among other domains, enabling scientific discoveries that were previously impractical or impossible. (Credit: OLCF at ORNL / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Solar Panel on a residential building (credits: YHA Conwy / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Solar Panel on a residential building (credits: YHA Conwy / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Pepper Robots at IBM THINKLab Aging in Place Environment (credits: IBM Research / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Pepper Robots at IBM THINKLab Aging in Place Environment (credits: IBM Research / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Solar Container used by NATO (credits: Sebastian von Stein / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Solar Container used by NATO (credits: Sebastian von Stein / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0))

Photo d'illustration: Conteneur solaire utilisé par l'OTAN (credits: Sebastian von Stein / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0))

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SINGAPORE (Oct. 22, 2014) Cmdr. Eric Pihl, assigned to Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), observes the operation of an unmanned surface vehicle. Personnel from the Office of Naval Research and SPAWAR are in Singapore to support the inaugural Maritime RobotX Challenge held Oct. 24-26. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jay C. Pugh/Released)

Illustration Photo: Alternaria leaf spot is showing up in cotton fields in the High Plains. (credits: Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Dr. Jourdan Bell / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Alternaria leaf spot is showing up in cotton fields in the High Plains. (credits: Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Dr. Jourdan Bell / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Photo d'illustration: La Brûlure alternarienne apparaît dans les champs de coton dans les hautes plaines. (credits: Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Dr. Jourdan Bell / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: R.J. Taylor Memorial Hospital, Inc. Family Medicine Physician Dr. Albert Warren, MD consults with a patient and records the patient’s symptoms on an electronic tablet in Hawkinsville, GA on Mar. 6, 2013. (credits: USDA photo by Bob Nichols / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: R.J. Taylor Memorial Hospital, Inc. Family Medicine Physician Dr. Albert Warren, MD consults with a patient and records the patient’s symptoms on an electronic tablet in Hawkinsville, GA on Mar. 6, 2013. (credits: USDA photo by Bob Nichols / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Researchers from the Applied Optics Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique (credits: © École polytechnique / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Researchers from the Applied Optics Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique (credits: © École polytechnique / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Agricultural robot (credits: Claire Benjamin / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Agricultural robot (credits: Claire Benjamin / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Photo d'illustration: Robot agricole (credits: Claire Benjamin / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Spray Coup With GPS Precision Controlled Boom (credits: Jimmy Smith / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Spray Coup With GPS Precision Controlled Boom (credits: Jimmy Smith / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Fresno almond farmer Simon Sihota checks the moisture reading on his digital soil moisture content display. (credits: USDA NRCS / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Fresno almond farmer Simon Sihota checks the moisture reading on his digital soil moisture content display. (credits: USDA NRCS / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Space Exploration Masters winners. From space-friendly crops to high-tech propulsion systems, the Space Exploration Masters competition awarded disruptive ideas with prizes worth more than €500 000. Europe’s first and only space exploration competition welcomed new players to boost business and innovation beyond Earth’s orbit. The prizes were handed over at NewSpace Europe, an event focused on space industry and the economic opportunity of space held on 16 November 2017 in Luxembourg. Copyright Dominique Gaul / ESA

Illustration Photo: Space Exploration Masters winners. From space-friendly crops to high-tech propulsion systems, the Space Exploration Masters competition awarded disruptive ideas with prizes worth more than €500 000. Europe’s first and only space exploration competition welcomed new players to boost business and innovation beyond Earth’s orbit. The prizes were handed over at NewSpace Europe, an event focused on space industry and the economic opportunity of space held on 16 November 2017 in Luxembourg. Copyright Dominique Gaul / ESA

Photo d'illustration: Les lauréats des Masters de l'exploration spatiale. De la culture spatiale au système de propulsion high-tech, le concours Space Exploration Masters a récompensé des idées innovantes avec des prix de plus de 500 000 euros. Le premier et unique concours européen d'exploration spatiale a accueilli de nouveaux acteurs pour stimuler les affaires et l'innovation au-delà de l'orbite terrestre. Les prix ont été remis à NewSpace Europe, un événement axé sur l'industrie spatiale et l'opportunité économique de l'espace qui s'est tenu le 16 novembre 2017 à Luxembourg. Copyright Dominique Gaul / ESA

Illustration Photo: Blockchain (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Blockchain (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Solar panels power a water pump to bring irrigation water 68 meters from the river to the fields. (credits: Satyam Joshi / USAID / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Solar panels power a water pump to bring irrigation water 68 meters from the river to the fields. (credits: Satyam Joshi / USAID / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Transport control room (credits: IanVisits / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Transport control room (credits: IanVisits / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Aircraft (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Aircraft (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Environment (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Environment (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Mobile internet (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Mobile internet (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: A green laser shoots skyward as part of Sandia’s Laser Applications (LAZAP) project. LAZAP uses high-powered laser beams as part of a process to calibrate optical sensors on GPS and DSP satellites. (credits: Randy Montoya / Sandia Labs / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: A green laser shoots skyward as part of Sandia’s Laser Applications (LAZAP) project. LAZAP uses high-powered laser beams as part of a process to calibrate optical sensors on GPS and DSP satellites. (credits: Randy Montoya / Sandia Labs / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: SŽDC Balabenka Train Traffic Control Centre in Prague. (credits: IRITS Events Ltd. Photo: Richard Hadley / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Illustration Photo: SŽDC Balabenka Train Traffic Control Centre in Prague. (credits: IRITS Events Ltd. Photo: Richard Hadley / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Big Data (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Big Data (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Wooden building in China (credits: shankar s. / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Wooden building in China (credits: shankar s. / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Auditor D. Michael Ingram from Green Collar Crew uses a digital micromanometer to check airflow from a gas water heater, as part of a home energy audit. (credits: Andy Harper / EE Image Database / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Auditor D. Michael Ingram from Green Collar Crew uses a digital micromanometer to check airflow from a gas water heater, as part of a home energy audit. (credits: Andy Harper / EE Image Database / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Illustration Photo: e-payment (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: e-payment (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Delivery Status Widget for keeping track of the packages coming in AND the packages sent out. (credits: criana / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Delivery Status Widget for keeping track of the packages coming in AND the packages sent out. (credits: criana / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Voting session at the European Parliament. The EU is a community of 27 countries, whose unity and diversity is expressed via 23 official languages, as well as plethora of other national, regional and local languages. For 2006 the cost of translation in all EU institutions is estimated at €800 million, in 2005: the total cost of interpretation was almost €190 million. (credits: European Parliament / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives CreativeCommons licenses)

Illustration Photo: Voting session at the European Parliament. The EU is a community of 27 countries, whose unity and diversity is expressed via 23 official languages, as well as plethora of other national, regional and local languages. For 2006 the cost of translation in all EU institutions is estimated at €800 million, in 2005: the total cost of interpretation was almost €190 million. (credits: European Parliament / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives CreativeCommons licenses)

Illustration Photo: Open data (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Open data (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: National Grid's Control Room (credits: National Grid / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: National Grid's Control Room (credits: National Grid / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: First qbee satellite from Open Cosmos, the qb01 currently in orbit. Open Cosmos is a start-up from ESA Business incubation Centre (ESA BIC) Harwell providing a one-stop-shop to put a nanosatellite in orbit. Copyright Open Cosmos

Illustration Photo: First qbee satellite from Open Cosmos, the qb01 currently in orbit. Open Cosmos is a start-up from ESA Business incubation Centre (ESA BIC) Harwell providing a one-stop-shop to put a nanosatellite in orbit. Copyright Open Cosmos

Illustration Photo: Drilling platform (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Drilling platform (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: TerraSentia, a new lightweight, low-cost agricultural robot (credits: Claire Benjamin / University of Illinois / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: TerraSentia, a new lightweight, low-cost agricultural robot (credits: Claire Benjamin / University of Illinois / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

Illustration Photo: HPC (credits: elenavataga / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: HPC (credits: elenavataga / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration of Flaperon device. Note that fittings are not included in the work package (credit: European Commission)

Illustration of Flaperon device. Note that fittings are not included in the work package (credit: European Commission)

Illustration Photo: Avionics (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Avionics (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Airplane's cockpit (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Airplane's cockpit (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Photo d'illustration: Le cockpit d'un avion (CC0 Creative Commons from Pixabay.com)

Illustration Photo: Nestlé Japan is pioneering a new consumer engagement model using the robot ‘Pepper’, which responds to human emotions, to sell Nescafé products. (credits: Nestlé / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Nestlé Japan is pioneering a new consumer engagement model using the robot ‘Pepper’, which responds to human emotions, to sell Nescafé products. (credits: Nestlé / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Smart meter (credits: Lloyd DeGrane / Midwest Energy News / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Smart meter (credits: Lloyd DeGrane / Midwest Energy News / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: 5G Testbed at L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain (credits: Roberto Pla / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Illustration Photo: 5G Testbed at L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain (credits: Roberto Pla / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Supercomputer in a datacenter (credits: Quinn Dombrowski / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Supercomputer in a datacenter (credits: Quinn Dombrowski / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Illustration Photo: RoboCup 2013 (credits: Jiuguang Wang http://www.robo.guru / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Illustration Photo: RoboCup 2013 (credits: Jiuguang Wang http://www.robo.guru / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0))

Illustration Photo: 3D printed collar (credits: Jake Marsico / Madeline Gannon / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Illustration Photo: 3D printed collar (credits: Jake Marsico / Madeline Gannon / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Photo d'illustration: Collier imprimé par l'impression 3D (credits: Jake Marsico / Madeline Gannon / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Light-weight bio-based structures (credits: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Light-weight bio-based structures (credits: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Biodegradable Packaging Kingdom Fresh Tomatoes (credits: Produce Marketing Association / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Biodegradable Packaging Kingdom Fresh Tomatoes (credits: Produce Marketing Association / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: AFEX-treated GLBRC corn stover before enzymatic hydrolysis. Enzymatic hydrolysis is the breaking down of cellulose polymers into monomeric and oligomeric sugars using cellulase enzymes. (credits: Tyler Wittkopp / Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: AFEX-treated GLBRC corn stover before enzymatic hydrolysis. Enzymatic hydrolysis is the breaking down of cellulose polymers into monomeric and oligomeric sugars using cellulase enzymes. (credits: Tyler Wittkopp / Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

Illustration Photo: Microorganisms such as algae are among the world’s smallest chemical factories. They produce metabolites, which are valuable raw materials for the chemical industry. BASF already uses the algae Dunaliella salina in Australia to produce β-carotene for food additives. (credits: BASF / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))