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

- Show: [The Next Byte Podcast](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast)
- Published: 2021-08-10
- Length: 21m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2021-08-10-30-climate-change-ai-robots-getting-you-dressed-drones-evacuating-nursing-homes
- Listen: https://the-next-byte-wevolver.simplecast.com/episodes/30-climate-change-ai-robots-getting-you-dressed-drones-evacuating-nursing-homes-7F6JOgDC

## Summary

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.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2021-08-10-30-climate-change-ai-robots-getting-you-dressed-drones-evacuating-nursing-homes#t=0) Introduction
- [0:45](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2021-08-10-30-climate-change-ai-robots-getting-you-dressed-drones-evacuating-nursing-homes#t=45) Climate Change AI and Forest Fires
- [6:30](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2021-08-10-30-climate-change-ai-robots-getting-you-dressed-drones-evacuating-nursing-homes#t=390) MIT Assistive Dressing Robots
- [14:31](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2021-08-10-30-climate-change-ai-robots-getting-you-dressed-drones-evacuating-nursing-homes#t=871) Emergency Evacuation Drones

## Topics

- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Robotics & autonomy](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/robotics-and-autonomy)
- [Energy & climate tech](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/energy-and-climate-tech)

## Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

## Mentioned

- Technical University of Munich (company)
- MIT (company)
- Technical University of Eindhoven (company)
- Yellowstone National Park (other)

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