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42. World's Most Advanced Prosthetics
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(1:11) - Accelerating New Material Discovery 🔬⚗️(11:40) - World’s Most Advanced Prosthetics 🦾🦿Episode 42 was brought to you by Mouser...
41. The Tesla of Blind Canes
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(1:03) - Self-navigating Smart Cane 🦯 (15:16) - Enhanced Touchscreens 📱 Episode 41 was brought to you by Mouser Electronics, Farbod & Daniel’...
40. Why Plastic Eating Enzymes Will Save Our Oceans
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(1:11) - How Patagonia is saving the oceans, one hat at a time 🌊 (12:00) - Samsara - the “infinite recycling” startup ♻️ Episode 40 was b...
39. The EV You’ll Never Have To Charge
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(1:00) - Lightyear One - The EV that runs on solar power (16:45) - Czinger - The 3D Printed Car That Beat The Best Episode 39 was brought to you by ...
38. Time Traveling With The James Webb Telescope
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(1:05) - NASA Grant To Enable Explorations Of Concrete Behavior In Moon-Like Gravity: Colonizing Mars and setting up a base on the lunar surface for ...
37. Smart T-Shirts: Next-Gen Astronaut Wearables
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(1:20) - Smart T-shirt measures astronaut vital signs : Fun fact: astronauts lose up to 20% of muscle mass during their missions. If we want to make ...
36. How To Reinvent Construction Using Robotics
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:55) - Reinventing The Construction Industry: There are 150,000 accidents on construction sites every year and there have been little technological...
35. The Feisty Crustacean That Inspired A New Generation of Super Robots
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(1:23) - Robot Mimics Mantis Shrimp: Meet the mantis shrimp; a 2-7 inch crustacean capable of creating temperatures near that of the sun’s surface ...
34. How 3D Printed Eardrums & Blood Vessels Will Revolutionize Medicine
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(1:00) - Biomedical Engineers Grow 3D Bioprinted Blood Vessel: Do you ever read about a groundbreaking new drug and then wonder why it never actually...
33. The Solar Panel That Broke The World Record
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(1:09) - Scientists Set New Record With Bifacial Solar Cells: Australian National University just broke a world record for solar efficiency by harves...
32. Robot That Will Save Grape Farmers Billions & How Metallic Glass Will Result In Affordable Robotics
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(1:04) - Facial Recognition AI Helps Save Multibillion Dollar Grape Crop:Powdery mildew causes multi-billion dollar losses of grape crops on a yearly ...
31. Dragonfly Explores Titan, Curing Muscular Dystrophy, NeckFace
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(1:55) - Dragonfly on Titan: Dragonfly is the sequel to the Cassini mission from 1997 whose goal was to study the moon of planet Saturn; Titan. Titan...
30. Climate Change AI, Robots Getting You Dressed, Drones Evacuating Nursing Homes
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:45) - Modeling How Climate Change Impacts Forest Fires: Wildfires have been wreaking havoc on the nation’s forests and it is now more important ...
29. Detecting Cancer In Pee, Robotic Neck Brace, Quieter Airplanes
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:55) - Using Nanoparticles To Detect Cancer In Pee: A team of MIT engineers have come up with a way to detect the presence of cancer and localize t...
28. AI Policing Social Media, What Marsquakes Can Teach Us, Preventing Lead Poisoning From Solar Panels
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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27. Nanostructured Shields, Balloon Venusquake Detection, 20% Brighter OLED
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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26. Hugging Robots, Scalable Solar Fuel, Non-Invasive Spinal Implants
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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25. Solar Sailing, Preventing Cyber Attacks, Space Trash Robot
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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24. MIT’s Magic Carpet, Nanoparticles in Your Food, Turning Fabric into Smart Devices
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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23. Bird-Inspired Drone Wings, Scaling Digital Twins, Tracking Microplastics From Space
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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22. How to Turn Gum into Shoes, Reducing CO2 in Construction by 40%, High-Speed Flying Boats
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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21. AI Rescues Firefighters, NASA Prints Spacecraft Parts, Plug & Play Prosthetics
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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20. NASA’s New Moon Buggy, Rock Picking Robot, Super-Strong Concrete
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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19. Injectable Microchips, 2D Transistors, AI For Spacecraft Diagnosis
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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18. Artificial Electronic Nose, Wastewater To Energy, Satellite Farm Monitoring
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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17. Tissue Printing During Surgery, Hair Brushing Robots, Smaller & Cheaper Batteries
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do us a favor and leave us a review on Apple podcasts: apple.co/2RIsbZ2 (0:50) - Bioprinting During Surgery: Trauma to the head or face can be diffi...
16. Lobster Inspired Armor, Wireless EV Charging, Autonomous Solar Farm Setup
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:45) Lobster Inspired Armor: MIT’s mechanical engineering department faculty had a breakthrough caused by lobster dinner: lobster underbelly memb...
15. Charm's Carbon Offsets, Fitness Trainer Drones, MIT Studies Sound Waves In The North Pole
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:50) - A Charming Response To The Carbon Offsetting Controversy: Approximately 85% of all carbon offsetting efforts do not actually remove any addi...
14. NASA’s Asteroid Mission, Organic Polymers in HVAC, Beer Factories with 3D Printers
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:50) - NASA’s Spacecraft to Explore Psyche-16: NASA’s upcoming Psyche mission will explore a large metal asteroid that may be the core of a for...
13. AlphaFold Solves Protein Folding, NASA Protects Firefighters, Autonomous Shuttles Debut In Denmark
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:45) - AlphaFold Solves Protein FoldingResearchers have struggled with the problem of protein folding for nearly 50 years but DeepMind - an Alphabet...
12. Ford Trucks Made From Trash, NASA’s Ingenuity Drone, Snake-Inspired Nonslip Shoes
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:45) - Ford & HP Partner To Upcycle 3D Printer WasteFord has partnered with HP to take the 3D printer waste from companies like SmileDirectClub and ...
11. Neuralink, Airspeeder: The Flying Car, Carbon Footprint & Computer Chips
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:46) - NeuralinkNeuralink wants to plant chips in people using a robotic and reversible operation with the goal of eliminating neural related illnes...
10. Sustainable Fashion, Apple Car Insights, Sharper Bionic Eyes
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:43) - Sustainable FashionAn international team composed of 7 different institutions led by Dr. Svetlana Boriskina has achieved a polyethylene texti...
9. Nissan’s Big Hybrid Bet, 3D Printing Your Future Home, NYPD’s RoboPup
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:50) Nissan Reduces CO2 Emissions With Gas Powered EV - Nissan newly developed STARC system allows for a 50% thermally efficient internal combustio...
8. Eliminating Emissions With IoT, Shapeshifting Fabrics, Fuel Cell Flight
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:40) Eliminating Emission Inspections Via IoT - Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed a machine learning model that can conduct vehic...
7. Diagnosing Alzheimer’s At A Glance, The Stress You Sweat, Bloom’s Better Bioplastics
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:45) Diagnosing Alzheimer’s At A Glance - Researchers at Duke University have developed a machine learning model capable of successfully differen...
6. Beating Bias In AI, Anti-Tremor Gloves, AR Assisted Surgery
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:45) Detecting and Mitigating Bias In AI - A collaboration between University of Michigan, UC Santa Cruz, Ohio State University, and Purdue Univers...
5. Making Rocket Fuel on Mars, Sustainable Transparent Wood, Plants Preventing Poisoning
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:45) MOXIE Could Help Future Rockets Launch Off Mars – NASA developed a device called MOXIE which will attempt to make oxygen out of thin air (Ma...
4. 3D Printing Organs, The AI DJ, Next-Gen Weather Satellites
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:44) 3D Bioprinted Heart Provides New Tool For Surgeons - A team from Carnegie Mellon developed a new way to 3D print tissue and put it to the test...
3. AI for Mechanical Design, the Key to Thwarting Quantum Hackers, Making Better Batteries
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:57) Order Up! AI Finds the Right Material – Researchers from CMU and UCalgary made an AI algorithm to help designers choose the correct material...
2. Boom Brings Back Supersonic, Using AI to Beat TB, 5G is Messing Up Weather Forecasts
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:50) Boom – The Future of Supersonic Flight - Boom Supersonic has created their XB-1 prototype, the predecessor to their eventual Overture aircra...
1. Abstract Machine Learning, 3D Printing Airplanes, Learning Flight From Flies
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(0:40) The next stop in machine learning: making sense of abstract concepts - Researchers from MIT, IBM, and Columbia created a machine learning mode...
0. The Next Byte
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(1:05) Who we are. (8:10) Why create the podcast. (12:50) Where this podcast is going. (5:20) How you (the listeners) can help. --About the podcast...