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(1:41) - Adaptive Swarm Robotics Could Revolutionize Agriculture 🚜🤖 (12:11) - Autonomous Agricultural Robots Revolutionize Organic Farming 🌾🚜 Episode 47 was brought to you by Mouser Electronics, Farbod & Daniel’s favorite electronics distributor. Click here to read about how robotic systems can be leveraged in farms to optimize their operation. Become a founding reader of our newsletter: http:...

(5:04) - Deep Fake AI Pioneering Material Design Discoveries (13:50) - Automating Engineering’s Ideal Manager Episode 46 was brought to you by Mouser Electronics, Farbod & Daniel’s favorite electronics distributor. Click here to read about how AI is being leveraged for life sciences. Become a founding reader of our newsletter: http://read.thenextbyte.com/   As always, you can find these and o...

(3:33) - Spinning Payloads Into Low Earth Orbit  ☄️ SpinLaunch is making a giant robotic discus thrower to fling satellites into space. (19:07) - Startram: All Aboard the Train to Space 🚅 Startram uses maglev technology to create a high-speed train that can launch both objects & people into space.   Episode 45 was brought to you by Mouser Electronics, Farbod & Daniel’s favorite electronics distri...

(1:00) - Detecting Unwanted & Hazardous Objects With Vision AI 🤖👁 (16:20) - Robot Trained To Remove Weeds From Organic Fields🤖🚜 Episode 44 was brought to you by Mouser Electronics, Farbod & Daniel’s favorite electronics distributor. Click here to learn more about Mouser's guide for developing the computer vision project that Mouser used in their warehouse for inspecting labels. Become a foundin...

(2:30) - Recycling Batteries 🔋♻️ (5:40) - Electric Aircraft 🛩⚡️ (9:10) - Swissloop Tunneling 🚄🕳 (12:10) - Hydrogen Powered Race Car 🚙⚡️ Episode 43 was brought to you by Mouser Electronics, Farbod & Daniel’s favorite electronics distributor. Click here to learn more about Mouser's support of student projects to foster the next generation of engineers. Become a founding reader of our newsletter...

(1:11) -  Accelerating New Material Discovery 🔬⚗️ (11:40) - World’s Most Advanced Prosthetics 🦾🦿 Episode 42 was brought to you by Mouser Electronics, Farbod & Daniel’s favorite electronics distributor. Click here to learn more about Mouser's 3D printed car project hosted by Grant Imahara. Become a founding reader of our newsletter: http://read.thenextbyte.com/   As always, you can find the...

(1:03) - Self-navigating Smart Cane 🦯   (15:16) - Enhanced Touchscreens 📱   Episode 41 was brought to you by Mouser Electronics, Farbod & Daniel’s favorite electronics distributor. Click here to learn more about Mouser's Create the Future Design Contest. Become a founding reader of our newsletter: http://read.thenextbyte.com/   As always, you can find these and other interesting & impac...

(1:11) - How Patagonia is saving the oceans, one hat at a time 🌊   (12:00) - Samsara - the “infinite recycling” startup ♻️   Episode 40 was brought to you by Mouser Electronics, Farbod & Daniel’s favorite electronics distributor. Click here to learn more about Mouser's environmental commitments, which we are definitely excited about. Become a founding reader of our newsletter: http://read.thenext...

(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 Mouser Electronics, Farbod & Daniel’s favorite electronics distributor. Click here to learn more about the high school solar car team that was made possible with support from Mouser electronics. Become a founding reader of our newsletter: http://re...

(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 deep space exploration has been a hot topic for a while, but there is still a major unanswered question: how are we going to build structures in space? Concrete seems to be a pretty solid answer.  Unfortunately, the microgravity conditions in space...

(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 long-term space missions, we need to understand why and how this muscle atrophy takes place. That’s exactly what the German Aerospace Center aims to accomplish with their smart T-shirt and astronaut Matthias Maurer will be the first to bring the mode...

(0:55) - Reinventing The Construction Industry :  There are 150,000 accidents on construction sites every year and there have been little technological advances to mitigate these risks - until now. University of Michigan is leading research efforts to develop a collaborative robot that can handle all the physically strenuous, and dangerous, tasks on the job site with instructions from seasoned con...

(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 by the flick of their wrists. A group of scientists from numerous institutions have been investigating this curious sea dweller to understand how the mechanics of this phenomena work and how we can replicate it to be utilized in different applications...

(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 becomes available to the general public? Well, a group of Texas A&M researchers plan to address that by mimicking human biology using functional 3D printed blood vessels.    (9:10) - 3D Printed Eardrum Graft :  Eardrum damage is difficult to addres...

(1:09) - Scientists Set New Record With Bifacial Solar Cells :  Australian National University just broke a world record for solar efficiency by harvesting solar energy reflected from the ground behind a solar panel using their novel double sided approach. (7:27) - Smart Laser Cutter System Detects Different Materials :  Have you ever wanted to use a laser cutter without needing to research the ri...

(1:04) - Facial Recognition AI Helps Save Multibillion Dollar Grape Crop : Powdery mildew causes multi-billion dollar losses of grape crops on a yearly basis so it is no surprise that researchers like Professor Lance Cadle-Davidson from Cornell University are working on developing more fungus resistant varieties. The process of analyzing grape leaf samples is quite cumbersome and would’ve required...

(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’s earth-like features - like it’s atmosphere - has piqued the interest of researchers for years. We hope to better understand the origins of our planet in addition to the formation of biological beings by studying this moon.  (8:13) - Machine Learn...

(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 than ever to understand how our changing climate is impacting our most treasured ecosystems. Computer simulations can provide great insight but when considering the number of variables that contribute to forest fires it becomes clear that traditional...

(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 the region of origin by analyzing a patient’s pee sample. The patient can either inhale or be injected with nanoparticles that’ll exit the body via urine and a paper test - similar to over the counter pregnancy tests - can be used to determine if the...

Take a few seconds to leave us a review. It really helps! https://apple.co/2RIsbZ2 if you do it and send us proof, we’ll give you a shoutout on the show. (0:47) - AI Struggles To Police Social Media :  In the last 3 months of 2020, Facebook’s AI for detecting hate speech, toxicity, and misinformation removed 27 million posts. Automated moderation is the only viable solution for all the major socia...

Take a few seconds to leave us a review. It really helps! https://apple.co/2RIsbZ2 if you do it and send us proof, we’ll give you a shoutout on the show. (0:49) - Nanostructured Shields :  MIT, CalTech, and ETH Zurich researchers have developed a new lightweight material capable of providing more stopping power than kevlar on a per mass basis. Furthermore, they were able to use the Buckingham-pi t...

Take a few seconds to leave us a review. It really helps! https://apple.co/2RIsbZ2 if you do it and send us proof, we’ll give you a shoutout on the show. (0:48) - Hugging robots :  Have you ever missed someone so much that you wish you could just send them a hug? Well, now you can! Alexis E. Block and her team at ETH Zurich have been developing various iterations of HuggieBot - a robot whose goal...

Take a few seconds to leave us a review. It really helps! https://apple.co/2RIsbZ2 if you do it and send us proof, we’ll give you a shoutout on the show. (0:50) - Deployable Solar Sail : Solar sails are a great alternative to traditional propulsion for deep space travel since it only depends on sunlight as its power source. Recent advances in material science have allowed NASA engineers to develop...

Take a few seconds to leave us a review. It really helps! https://apple.co/2RIsbZ2 if you do it and send us proof, we’ll give you a shoutout on the show.   (1:30) - The Magic Carpet :   MIT researchers have created a carpet with thousands of sensors to monitor pressure changes from people’s movement. The data is then fed into a machine learning algorithm that can estimate someone’s 3D positioning...

Take a few seconds to leave us a review. It really helps! https://apple.co/2RIsbZ2   If you do it and send us proof, we’ll give you a shoutout on the show. (1:40) - Bird-like drone wings :  A UMich PhD student is hoping to revolutionize current UAV wing design by copying some of nature’s most capable flyers: seagulls. Gulls, unlike aircrafts, can remain stable during flight even in turbulent weath...