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March 16, 2020

4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About -- Episode 40


The singing, song-writing robot, privacy advisory, cloud seeding succeeding, safer self-driving, and arming yourself with tentacles.


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


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