Autonomous vehicles and devices for intelligent homes are becoming increasingly complex. A new system based on machine learning is being designed to make the soft- and hardware used for these applications more robust, powerful, and energy-efficient. The new project VEDLIoT is being funded by the European Commission, with approximately eight million Euro over the course of three years. The project is coordinated by Bielefeld University's CoR-Lab. In an intelligent home - a "Smarthome" - residents have devices at their fingertips that are designed to make lives easier: imagine a refrigerator that re-orders food when it is running low, and can, at the same time, communicate with the oven.

As Dorothy famously said in The Wizard of Oz, there's no place like home. Home is where we go to rest and recharge. We take care of our homes by cleaning and maintaining them, and fixing things that break or go wrong. What if our homes, on top of giving us shelter, could also take care of us in return? According to Chris Arkenberg, this could be the case in the not-so-distant future.