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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