Both assistant driving and self-driving have attracted a great amount of attention in the last few years. However, the majority of research efforts focus on safe driving; few research has been conducted on in-vehicle climate control, or assistant driving based on travellers' personal habits or preferences. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for climate control, driver behavior recognition and driving recommendation for better fitting drivers' preferences in their daily driving. The algorithm consists three components: (1) A in-vehicle sensing and context feature enriching compnent with a Internet of Things (IoT) platform for collecting related environment, vehicle-running, and traffic parameters that affect drivers' behaviors. (2) A non-intrusive intelligent driver behaviour and vehicle status detection component, which can automatically label vehicle's status (open windows, turn on air condition, etc.), based on results of applying further feature extraction and machine learning algorithms. (3) A personalized driver habits learning and preference recommendation component for more healthy and comfortable experiences. A prototype using a client-server architecture with an iOS app and an air-quality monitoring sensor has been developed for collecting heterogeneous data and testing our algorithms. Real-world experiments on driving data of 11,370 km (320 hours) by different drivers in multiple cities worldwide have been conducted, which demonstrate the effective and accuracy of our approach.

It may not quite be the robot assistant the Jetsons promised us, but a new $99 robot aims to help users around the home - and try and become their friend. Called Musio, the Android powered robot can even help owners through a tough day by giving them a hug,. It also learns over time, as its creators say it will become more and more useful. Called Musio, the Android powered robot can learn its owners preferences, helping them with everything from email to keeping an apartment cool. 'Musio is an artificially intelligent (A.I.) robot designed to learn, adapt and grow with you,' its creators say. 'The more you use Musio, the smarter it becomes.'