These are the ten inventions that could change the world, according to Bill Gates

Each year, MIT Technology Review publishes a list of the most promising innovations. What are the inventions that will change the world? On this occasion, they invited Bill Gates to badyze the projects likely to improve the world this year and the following year.

1- Robots with dexterity

One of the big challenges of robotics is that the machines manage to handle small items and to move without stumbling. Although progress has been made on the ground, especially Boston Dynamics, which has created robots that jump, run and avoid obstacles, the truth is that, basically, much remains to be done.

2- Renewed nuclear energy

Generation IV nuclear fission reactors would create energy at low cost, efficiently and safely. These are small miniature reactors that produce tens of megawatts of energy. NuScale in Oregon is working on these devices.

3-Predicting premature children

Although the vast majority of human genetic material is in cells. There are also small amounts of DNA and RNA that float in the blood. These are materials that are usually released by dying cells. In the case of pregnant women, the badysis of this component would predict if a baby could be born premature.

4- The intestinal probe

A small pill that allows you to take pictures of the intestines without it being necessary to subject the patient to an anesthetic or any type of risky procedure.

This would be essential to help predict diseases such as enteric dysfunction of the environment, characterized by inflammation of the intestine resulting in poor absorption of nutrients.

5- The cancer vaccine

It is in the testing phase but it is not yet commercialized. The treatment allows the body's natural defenses to attack the cancer cells of the body. For this, he is able to identify the genetic mutations of tumors. This would attack and cure many types of cancer. This is one of the most anticipated and promising advances of the recent period.

6- The meatless burger

The consumption of meat has devastating effects on the environment, especially on climate change. The UN expects the world to have 9.8 billion inhabitants by 2050. By then, humans will consume 70% more meat than they do in the world. they did not eat it in 2005.

7. A "sensor" of carbon dioxide

For Gates, it is essential to find ways to capture carbon dioxide from the air in order to absorb excessive emissions of greenhouse gases. In fact, once the carbon dioxide has been captured, decide what to do with it.

In this sense, Gates mentions that the Canadian start-up Carbon Engineering (in which it invests) plans to expand the production of its synthetic fuels, using captured carbon dioxide as its main ingredient.

8- Electrocardiogram on the wrist

There are smart watches that allow you to monitor the heart. They are a kind of portable ECG. Of course, not everyone is as reliable and efficient. In this sense, it is essential to know if they have a certification or an approval issued by an entity regulating this type of device, such as the FDA.

9- Solutions to solve waste treatment and lack of sewers

The lack of toilets and sewers affects the health of billions of people around the world. Faeces and waste eventually accumulate in the soil and in the water, causing the development of bacteria, parasites and viruses that cause all kinds of diseases.

This is one of the issues Bill Gates is most concerned about and who, in fact, has worked intensively on this issue. Work is underway on the development of low-cost toilets for waste treatment.

10- Increasingly intelligent virtual badistants

Siri, Cortana and the Google badistant. Virtual badistants are ubiquitous in all types of devices: from mobile phones to speakers. The real challenge now is to improve the understanding of the language so that interaction with this language becomes more and more natural.