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30. Climate Change AI, Robots Getting You Dressed, Drones Evacuating Nursing Homes

The Next Byte Podcast · 10 Aug 2021 · 21m

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Hosts Daniel Scott Mitchell and Farbod Moghaddam discuss three recent tech developments: a Technical University of Munich neural network modeling forest fire impacts on Yellowstone, MIT research on assistive robots for helping the elderly get dressed, and a Technical University of Eindhoven drone designed to evacuate nursing homes by detecting human emotions.

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Technical University of Munich, MIT, Technical University of Eindhoven
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Yellowstone National Park

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