Tech Update

Internet through balloons.

Alphabet’s Loon project has started its balloon service that would be used to deliver Internet in Kenya. The plan is to use solar powered balloons to beam 4G Internet. It is planning to take 35 balloons to the sky and in eastern Africa.

The Robot that can run its own experiments.

n the University of Liverpool, scientists have created a robot that runs its own experiments. It has finished 700 experiments in eight days and stops only to recharge its batteries. It is about the size of a human and weighs as much as 400 kg and can move on its own.

Artificial Intelligence takes the Global Music Award.

The Australian song which was written by an AI has won a new International music competition. The song, Beautiful the world was one of the 13 other songs in the AI song contest which was hosted by the Dutch radio station VPRO.

A biomimetic robotic finger created using 3D printing

A biomimetic robotic finger is developed by the researchers at University of California- Santa Cruz and Ritsumeikan University in Japan by using 3D printing. The robotic finger is inspired by human endoskeletal structure. It presented at International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), and was assembled using a multi-material 3-D printer.

AI-Powered Web App to Convert Sounds into Musical Instruments.

Google unveils a new AI-powered web app named Sounds of India in collaboration with Prasar Bharati and Virtual Bharat. This app allows us sing the Indian national anthem into our phone, and it converts our voice into one of three traditional Indian musical instruments (Bansuri, Shehnai and Sarangi). This app is made possible by machine learning models built with Google’s ‘TensorFlow’ platform.

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