Developed by Shift Robotics, a spin-off company from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, the Moonwalkers are currently the subject of a ‘Kickstarter campaign’.
"Our forecasting system has been a top performer at the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) annual forecasting challenges. I like to think of COVIDcast as a replica of what we've done for the flu but better and faster," said Ryan Tibshirani
