“It’s not only about the pretty pictures, though — this is about feeding Google’s machine learning algorithms the data they need to index the real world.”
Photo: Google Street View
“People build dams and huge turbines to turn the energy of waterfalls and tides into electricity. To produce hydropower on a much smaller scale, Chinese scientists have now developed a lightweight power generator based on carbon nanotube fibers…”
Photo: Electricity output based on Flow-rate
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-one-dimensional-fluidic-nanogenerator-electricity-bloodstream.html
“But as robots get more capable, the amount of data that they collect will increase, and sharing that data in a useful, thoughtful, and considerate way could make smart homes way smarter.”
Photo: iRobot CEO Colin Angle