The singing, song-writing robot, privacy advisory, cloud seeding succeeding, safer self-driving, and arming yourself with tentacles. It’s 4 Awesome Discoveries and a Thing You Probably Didn’t Hear About.
New infrastructure will enhance privacy in today’s Internet of Things
https://cylab.cmu.edu/news/2020/02/19-privacy-assistant.html
Carnegie Mellon University
Internet of Things (IoT) Portal: https://www.iotprivacy.io/login
IoT Assistant app is available in both the Apple iOS and Google Play stores
Shimon: Now a singing, song writing robot
https://www.news.gatech.edu/2020/02/25/shimon-now-singing-songwriting-robot
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Into Your Mind,” music video by Shimon the Robot
Scientists demonstrate that cloud seeding can generate snowfall
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=300089
University of Colorado
National Center for Atmospheric Research
University of Wyoming
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Idaho Power Company
Researchers look under the road to aid self-driving cars
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=300108
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Octopus-inspired robot can grip, move, and manipulate a wide range of objects
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2020/02/tentacle-bot
Harvard University
Beihang University in Beijing, China
Festo SE & Co. KG, Germany
Credit: National Science Foundation