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244. The Hidden Power of Engineers as Storytellers (with Mouser’s Matt Campbell & Ricky Flores)

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243. Cycling’s “Supersuit” Moment is Here

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242. Mouser’s Matt Bell & The Next Generation of Automated Warehouses

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241. Moby Dick Finally Gets a Fitbit

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240. Swallow Confirmed: Smart Pills That “Ping” From Your Stomach

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239. The Saucies: 2025 Recap & TNB Turns Five!

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238. Humanoid Robots Can Now Punch... What's Next?

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237. Vibe Manufacturing: MIT’s AI Text-to-Manufacturing System

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236. Cold-Chain Sensing, But Without E-Waste

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235. Arm’s Vince Jesaitis on How AI Is Moving from the Cloud to Your Pocket

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234. How Candy-Making Inspired the Future of Smart Textiles

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233. Reading a Fish’s Mind to Build Smarter Robots

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232. Turbine Innovations For A Greener Future [Rerun]

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231. The Patch That Can Heal a Broken Heart (Literally)

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230. 3D Printing Gets the Hannah Montana Treatment

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229. Teaching Robots to Play Badminton

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228. Harvard’s Soft Robot Gives Movement Back to ALS & Stroke Patients

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227. She Sells Seashells… and Reinvents Recycling

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226. Stop & Go No More: AI Cuts Intersection Emissions

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225. Detecting Disease Using Menstrual Pads

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224. Geothermal Could Save the Grid. So Why’s No One Talking About It?

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223. Artificial Sweeteners For Treating Cancer?

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222. Tree-Climbing and Reef-Restoring Robots

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221. Generational Discovery & The New Age of Computer Vision

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220. How Popcorn Popped an Idea for Sustainable Manufacturing

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219. Edible Robots Bring Tech to the Dessert Table

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218. Organ-on-a-chip: Our Best Shot At Beating Cancer?

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217. Meet the World's Smallest Walking Robots

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216. Exoskeleton + Digital Twin Aid Stroke Recovery

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215. Stanford Predicts The Next Human Evolution

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214. 3D Printing Robot Muscles

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213. Dehumidifying Walls Help Switzerland Hit Net Zero By 2050

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212. One Cure For All Snake Venoms Via AI

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211. Cooling Buildings With Porous Plastic Sheets

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210. Origami-inspired Concrete Construction

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209. Tom Zaubermann & The Cyber Threat(s) To Your Car

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208. Tiny Antennas for Big Cellular Insights

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207. Meet The Life-saving Snake Robot

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206. How Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Shaping Modern Wearables

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205. 2024 Recap & 2nd Annual Saucies!🥫🍾

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204. Mark Zachos & The Future of Onboard Diagnostics In Cars (Interview)

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203. From Diagnostics to Connected Cars: The OBD Evolution

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202. How Will Your Car Get Hacked?

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201. Non-invasive Memory Booster

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200. Scared of Flying Boeing? Nature Might Be The Solution

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199. Will AI Assistants Make Your Doctor Better?

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198. Scared of Turbulence? AI ~Might~ Fix That

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197. This Smart Charger = More EVs

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196. Saving America’s Collapsing Infrastructure

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195. Wear This Exoskeleton & Save Your Knees!

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194. You Don’t Stand Straight But This AI Wearable Will Fix It

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193. 3 Reasons Why You Should Print Your Next Home

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192. Karsten Roscher & The Need For Safe AI (Interview)

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191. From Prevention to Recovery: AI in Disaster Management

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190. Here's a Free Tool To Test Your AI

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189. Stanford & Toyota Drift Cars With AI

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188. Powering Medical Devices With Body Heat

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187. Turning Scrap Soda Cans & Coffee To Sustainable Car Fuel

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186. Invisible Shield: Blocking Germs with Wearable Tech

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185. BMW Makes Cars Faster With Augmented Reality

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184. Bionics Help Amputees Take Big Strides Forward

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183. Meet the AI That Helps You Ace Job Interviews

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182. Ex-Apple Engineer Creates Skincare Smart Patches

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181. Why Audi Uses 3D Printers For The R8

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180. Catching Feelings with 69% Accuracy: AI Reads Emotions in Sports

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179. 3D Printed Mini Thrusters For Space Travel

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178. Talk to The Hand: Meet The Robots With a Human Touch

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177. Did A Shrimp Fry This Rice? No, A Robot Did

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176. Super Fast Computer Vision: Final Piece of The Autonomous Vehicle Puzzle

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175. Is Your Drinking Water Safe? This Sensor Has The Answer

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174. All The Brain Chip Implant Benefits & None of The Risks

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173. Get 3 Days of Your Life Back Every Year with Smart Stoplights

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172. Don’t Throw Away Coffee Grounds; They Could Solve The World’s Water Crisis!

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171. Finally! A Humanoid Robot You Can Trust

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170. Robot That Drives Better Than The Average American

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169. Novel Fabrics + Robots = Sustainable One-size-fits-all Fashion Revolution

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168. Neuroprosthetics: The Next Step Towards Limb Reconstruction

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167. How Hydrogen Will Replace Batteries

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166. Jellyfish Cyborgs Help Explore The Oceans & Solve Climate Change

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165. Sticker to Monitor Your Internal Organs

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164. Dyson’s Automated, Self-sustaining Strawberry Farm

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163. Creating 3D Objects With AI

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162. Matching “Unmatchable” Fingerprints

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161. Stress Sensing Stickers

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160. AI Model Tests AI Models To Tell Us How They Work

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159. AI Makes Catheters 100 Times Safer

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158. Step Aside Rogaine, 3D Printed Hair Is Here

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157. Exoskeleton To Help Parkinson’s Patients Walk

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156. 2023 Recap & First Annual Saucies!🥫🍾

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155. Why Robotic Limbs Are Critical To The Human Race

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154. The 3D Printer That Teaches Itself To Print

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153. Robot Farmers Bring Back Biodiversity

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152. How To Make a Honda As Quiet As a Rolls Royce

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151. Battery Chemistry GPT

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150. Ed Mehr & Machina’s Robot Army Transform Manufacturing (Interview)

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149. Reverse Engineering The Brain With AI

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148. Converting CO2 To Clean Fuel

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147. Solar Fuel Reactor Generates Energy Out of Thin Air

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146. Robotic Pioneers on the Moon’s Surface

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145. The Prius of Artificial Intelligence: Hybrid AI Models

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144. Implantable Chip To Cure Diabetes

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143. 15-Minute Cities Via Urban Design AI

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142. Decarbonizing with Energy Modeling

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141. Breathing on Mars: MOXIE's Astounding Success

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140. Student-Built EV Shatters 0-62mph Record, Leaving Supercars in the Rearview 🏎

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139. 3D Printing Saves Optical Sensors

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138. How Thermal Batteries Will Scale Sustainable Energy ☀️🔋

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137. Sexy & Sustainable: Meet The Solar Ivy ☀️🌿

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136. Hybrid Takes The Sky With HyBird🛩🔋

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135. Retail Fights Back With Connected Tech 🛍

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134. Can We Trust Self-Driving Cars? 🚗💥

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133. Mighty Morphing All Terrain Robots Made By Nature

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132. Blind Spot Begone! Cars and Robots Can Now See Around Corners

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131. Megawatt Motors For Electric Flight

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130. A Spy In The Belly

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129. Burning Paper Bags For Sustainability

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128. Key To Unlock Immersive Holograms

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127. Pills No More: Patches As The Future of Drug Delivery

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126. Amputees Feel Warmth In Their Missing Hand

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125. Prompt Engineering: Latest Meme or The Next Big Thing?

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124. Authenticating Seeds To 5X Crop Yields

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123. Augmented Bad Drivers Turbocharge Autonomous Vehicle Development

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122. Preventing Head Trauma With Smart Helmets

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121. Power Up Your Wearable Devices with Blood Sugar!

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120. Carbon Soaking Concrete

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119. Honey, I Printed The Dessert!

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118. Sheet Metal Forming Goes High-Tech with Robotics & AI

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117. Self Repairing Corrosion Coating

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116. Eye of The Storm: NASA’s New Weather & Tropical Storm Tracking Sensors

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115. Building Bones with Bacteria-Infused Ink

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114. The Big Deal In (Smart) Diapers

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113. The Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Rare Diseases

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112. Overcoming Risks of AI Misuse

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111. Biomimicry From The Ground Up Via Multi-material 3D Printing

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110. The Future of Neurology: Neural Interfaces Countering Neural Diseases

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109. From Blastoff to Beyond: Ion Thrusters Pushing the Limits of Space Travel

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108. Ride Into The Future With BORN’s 3D Printed Motorcycles

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107. Mitigating High Emissions of Autonomous Cars

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106. Last Meter Delivery Robots

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105. Artificial Plants For Renewable Energy

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104. Recapping 2022

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103. Ant Inspired Swarm Robots

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102. Self-Flying Satellite’s Successful Space Mission

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101. Fighting Muscle Loss Via Wearables

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100. Weaving Nanomaterials With 3D Printed Machine

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99. AI Learns How To Be Curious

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98. Fighting Wetland Loss From Outer Space

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97. Beaming Clean Energy From Space

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96. Smart Health Tracking Tattoos

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95. Finding Better Cancer Cures By Printing Tumors

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94. NASA’s Plan to Crash Land on Mars

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93. AI Predicts Sports Games with 80% Accuracy

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92. Virtual Physical Therapy

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91. MOXIE Makes Oxygen On Mars

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90. Solving the Billion Person Sleep Problem

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89. The Flying 3D Printers

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88. Dall-E, But Better

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87. Turbine Innovations For A Greener Future

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86. The Autonomous Race & Drift Cars Of The Not So Distant Future

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85. The Future of EVs: Hydrogen Hybrids and Plug & Play Platform

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84. Printing Ice & Sensing Architected Materials

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83. Ultrasound Scanning Stickers & Autonomous Protein Discovery

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82. 3D Printing Space Sensors & Solar Cell Windows

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81. Printing Functional Hearts & Reverse Engineering Microbes

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80. Advanced Tents Saving Firefighters & Mine Sweeping Drones

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79. Teaching Robots To Find Buried Objects

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78. Microneedle Wearables & Spider Web Inspired Food Packaging For A Healthier Future

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77. Scaling Renewables With Novel Energy Harvesting & Storage Technologies

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76. Off-roading & Ending Stoplights With Autonomous Cars

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75. Size Matters: Tiny Biomimicry Leads to Big Breakthroughs

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74. Robots Working on the Moon and in Warehouses

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73. Nanometer Fuel Cells & Ultrathin Speakers

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72. Spiderweb Inspired & Graphene Enhanced Microchips

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71. Green Infrastructure For A More Efficient Future

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70. Immersive VR For Treating Phobias & Automotive Development

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69. Feet Pics Saving The Planet & Fly Eye Inspired AI

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68. Bird-inspired Bipedal Robots & Robotic Surgeons

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67. Don’t Lose Your Job Because of Robots or Carbon Dioxide

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66. Personalized Exoskeletons & Treating Parkinson's

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65. Pizzaiolo Robot & Autonomous Wheelchairs

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64. Solution To The Plastic Problem & Smart Fabrics

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63. Immune System Inspired AI & Electric Skin

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62. AI Powered Devices For Saving Lives & Studying Oceans

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61. Big Material Breakthroughs At The Small Scale

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60. Wildlife Control & Observation Via UAVs

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59. AI For Better Battery Design & Training Microrobots

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58. Metadata Embedded Hardware & Flexible OLED Screens

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57. Fast Healing Bandages For Astronauts & Organs

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56. Fighting Fatigue & Hangovers with Wearable Technology

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55. Wearable Tech for Owners and Pets

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54. 3D Printing the Engines and Drones of the Future

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53. Mind-Control and Bug-Like Robots

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52. Drones to Explore Space and Save Lives on Earth

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51. Recapping 2021

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50. Additive Manufacturing for Eardrums and Nano-Objects

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49. What Robots Can Learn from Starfish and Falcons

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48. How Robots Can Reproduce and Create Organs

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47. Robotic Farming Makes Produce Better & Cheaper

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46. Meet The AI Replacing Your Manager

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45. Spinning Payloads Into Space

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44. How Computer Vision Is Changing Your World

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43. Special: Students Building The Future

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42. World's Most Advanced Prosthetics

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41. The Tesla of Blind Canes

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40. Why Plastic Eating Enzymes Will Save Our Oceans

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39. The EV You’ll Never Have To Charge

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38. Time Traveling With The James Webb Telescope

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37. Smart T-Shirts: Next-Gen Astronaut Wearables

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36. How To Reinvent Construction Using Robotics

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35. The Feisty Crustacean That Inspired A New Generation of Super Robots

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34. How 3D Printed Eardrums & Blood Vessels Will Revolutionize Medicine

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33. The Solar Panel That Broke The World Record

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32. Robot That Will Save Grape Farmers Billions & How Metallic Glass Will Result In Affordable Robotics

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31. Dragonfly Explores Titan, Curing Muscular Dystrophy, NeckFace

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30. Climate Change AI, Robots Getting You Dressed, Drones Evacuating Nursing Homes

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29. Detecting Cancer In Pee, Robotic Neck Brace, Quieter Airplanes

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28. AI Policing Social Media, What Marsquakes Can Teach Us, Preventing Lead Poisoning From Solar Panels

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27. Nanostructured Shields, Balloon Venusquake Detection, 20% Brighter OLED

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26. Hugging Robots, Scalable Solar Fuel, Non-Invasive Spinal Implants

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25. Solar Sailing, Preventing Cyber Attacks, Space Trash Robot

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24. MIT’s Magic Carpet, Nanoparticles in Your Food, Turning Fabric into Smart Devices

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23. Bird-Inspired Drone Wings, Scaling Digital Twins, Tracking Microplastics From Space

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22. How to Turn Gum into Shoes, Reducing CO2 in Construction by 40%, High-Speed Flying Boats

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21. AI Rescues Firefighters, NASA Prints Spacecraft Parts, Plug & Play Prosthetics

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20. NASA’s New Moon Buggy, Rock Picking Robot, Super-Strong Concrete

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19. Injectable Microchips, 2D Transistors, AI For Spacecraft Diagnosis

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18. Artificial Electronic Nose, Wastewater To Energy, Satellite Farm Monitoring

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17. Tissue Printing During Surgery, Hair Brushing Robots, Smaller & Cheaper Batteries

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16. Lobster Inspired Armor, Wireless EV Charging, Autonomous Solar Farm Setup

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15. Charm's Carbon Offsets, Fitness Trainer Drones, MIT Studies Sound Waves In The North Pole

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14. NASA’s Asteroid Mission, Organic Polymers in HVAC, Beer Factories with 3D Printers

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13. AlphaFold Solves Protein Folding, NASA Protects Firefighters, Autonomous Shuttles Debut In Denmark

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12. Ford Trucks Made From Trash, NASA’s Ingenuity Drone, Snake-Inspired Nonslip Shoes

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11. Neuralink, Airspeeder: The Flying Car, Carbon Footprint & Computer Chips

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10. Sustainable Fashion, Apple Car Insights, Sharper Bionic Eyes

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9. Nissan’s Big Hybrid Bet, 3D Printing Your Future Home, NYPD’s RoboPup

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8. Eliminating Emissions With IoT, Shapeshifting Fabrics, Fuel Cell Flight

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7. Diagnosing Alzheimer’s At A Glance, The Stress You Sweat, Bloom’s Better Bioplastics

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6. Beating Bias In AI, Anti-Tremor Gloves, AR Assisted Surgery

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5. Making Rocket Fuel on Mars, Sustainable Transparent Wood, Plants Preventing Poisoning

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4. 3D Printing Organs, The AI DJ, Next-Gen Weather Satellites

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3. AI for Mechanical Design, the Key to Thwarting Quantum Hackers, Making Better Batteries

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2. Boom Brings Back Supersonic, Using AI to Beat TB, 5G is Messing Up Weather Forecasts

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1. Abstract Machine Learning, 3D Printing Airplanes, Learning Flight From Flies

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