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The Next Byte — 250 episodes
249. Harvard’s Smartwatch Makes You Run Faster & Safer
248. Xometry’s Oscar Lovera & How AI Is Rebuilding Manufacturing
247. NASA’s Electric Thruster That Could Take Us to Mars
246. Future of Bone Repair Starts with a 3D Printer
245. No More 3D Print Failures Thanks To… AI?
244. The Hidden Power of Engineers as Storytellers (with Mouser’s Matt Campbell & Ricky Flores)
243. Cycling’s “Supersuit” Moment is Here
242. Mouser’s Matt Bell & The Next Generation of Automated Warehouses
241. Moby Dick Finally Gets a Fitbit
240. Swallow Confirmed: Smart Pills That “Ping” From Your Stomach
239. The Saucies: 2025 Recap & TNB Turns Five!
238. Humanoid Robots Can Now Punch... What's Next?
237. Vibe Manufacturing: MIT’s AI Text-to-Manufacturing System
236. Cold-Chain Sensing, But Without E-Waste
235. Arm’s Vince Jesaitis on How AI Is Moving from the Cloud to Your Pocket
234. How Candy-Making Inspired the Future of Smart Textiles
233. Reading a Fish’s Mind to Build Smarter Robots
232. Turbine Innovations For A Greener Future [Rerun]
231. The Patch That Can Heal a Broken Heart (Literally)
230. 3D Printing Gets the Hannah Montana Treatment
229. Teaching Robots to Play Badminton
228. Harvard’s Soft Robot Gives Movement Back to ALS & Stroke Patients
227. She Sells Seashells… and Reinvents Recycling
226. Stop & Go No More: AI Cuts Intersection Emissions
225. Detecting Disease Using Menstrual Pads
224. Geothermal Could Save the Grid. So Why’s No One Talking About It?
223. Artificial Sweeteners For Treating Cancer?
222. Tree-Climbing and Reef-Restoring Robots
221. Generational Discovery & The New Age of Computer Vision
220. How Popcorn Popped an Idea for Sustainable Manufacturing
219. Edible Robots Bring Tech to the Dessert Table
218. Organ-on-a-chip: Our Best Shot At Beating Cancer?
217. Meet the World's Smallest Walking Robots
216. Exoskeleton + Digital Twin Aid Stroke Recovery
215. Stanford Predicts The Next Human Evolution
214. 3D Printing Robot Muscles
213. Dehumidifying Walls Help Switzerland Hit Net Zero By 2050
212. One Cure For All Snake Venoms Via AI
211. Cooling Buildings With Porous Plastic Sheets
210. Origami-inspired Concrete Construction
209. Tom Zaubermann & The Cyber Threat(s) To Your Car
208. Tiny Antennas for Big Cellular Insights
207. Meet The Life-saving Snake Robot
206. How Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Shaping Modern Wearables
205. 2024 Recap & 2nd Annual Saucies!🥫🍾
204. Mark Zachos & The Future of Onboard Diagnostics In Cars (Interview)
203. From Diagnostics to Connected Cars: The OBD Evolution
202. How Will Your Car Get Hacked?
201. Non-invasive Memory Booster
200. Scared of Flying Boeing? Nature Might Be The Solution
199. Will AI Assistants Make Your Doctor Better?
198. Scared of Turbulence? AI ~Might~ Fix That
197. This Smart Charger = More EVs
196. Saving America’s Collapsing Infrastructure
195. Wear This Exoskeleton & Save Your Knees!
194. You Don’t Stand Straight But This AI Wearable Will Fix It
193. 3 Reasons Why You Should Print Your Next Home
192. Karsten Roscher & The Need For Safe AI (Interview)
191. From Prevention to Recovery: AI in Disaster Management
190. Here's a Free Tool To Test Your AI
189. Stanford & Toyota Drift Cars With AI
188. Powering Medical Devices With Body Heat
187. Turning Scrap Soda Cans & Coffee To Sustainable Car Fuel
186. Invisible Shield: Blocking Germs with Wearable Tech
185. BMW Makes Cars Faster With Augmented Reality
184. Bionics Help Amputees Take Big Strides Forward
183. Meet the AI That Helps You Ace Job Interviews
182. Ex-Apple Engineer Creates Skincare Smart Patches
181. Why Audi Uses 3D Printers For The R8
180. Catching Feelings with 69% Accuracy: AI Reads Emotions in Sports
179. 3D Printed Mini Thrusters For Space Travel
178. Talk to The Hand: Meet The Robots With a Human Touch
177. Did A Shrimp Fry This Rice? No, A Robot Did
176. Super Fast Computer Vision: Final Piece of The Autonomous Vehicle Puzzle
175. Is Your Drinking Water Safe? This Sensor Has The Answer
174. All The Brain Chip Implant Benefits & None of The Risks
173. Get 3 Days of Your Life Back Every Year with Smart Stoplights
172. Don’t Throw Away Coffee Grounds; They Could Solve The World’s Water Crisis!
171. Finally! A Humanoid Robot You Can Trust
170. Robot That Drives Better Than The Average American
169. Novel Fabrics + Robots = Sustainable One-size-fits-all Fashion Revolution
168. Neuroprosthetics: The Next Step Towards Limb Reconstruction
167. How Hydrogen Will Replace Batteries
166. Jellyfish Cyborgs Help Explore The Oceans & Solve Climate Change
165. Sticker to Monitor Your Internal Organs
164. Dyson’s Automated, Self-sustaining Strawberry Farm
163. Creating 3D Objects With AI
162. Matching “Unmatchable” Fingerprints
161. Stress Sensing Stickers
160. AI Model Tests AI Models To Tell Us How They Work
159. AI Makes Catheters 100 Times Safer
158. Step Aside Rogaine, 3D Printed Hair Is Here
157. Exoskeleton To Help Parkinson’s Patients Walk
156. 2023 Recap & First Annual Saucies!🥫🍾
155. Why Robotic Limbs Are Critical To The Human Race
154. The 3D Printer That Teaches Itself To Print
153. Robot Farmers Bring Back Biodiversity
152. How To Make a Honda As Quiet As a Rolls Royce
151. Battery Chemistry GPT
150. Ed Mehr & Machina’s Robot Army Transform Manufacturing (Interview)
149. Reverse Engineering The Brain With AI
148. Converting CO2 To Clean Fuel
147. Solar Fuel Reactor Generates Energy Out of Thin Air
146. Robotic Pioneers on the Moon’s Surface
145. The Prius of Artificial Intelligence: Hybrid AI Models
144. Implantable Chip To Cure Diabetes
143. 15-Minute Cities Via Urban Design AI
142. Decarbonizing with Energy Modeling
141. Breathing on Mars: MOXIE's Astounding Success
140. Student-Built EV Shatters 0-62mph Record, Leaving Supercars in the Rearview 🏎
139. 3D Printing Saves Optical Sensors
138. How Thermal Batteries Will Scale Sustainable Energy ☀️🔋
137. Sexy & Sustainable: Meet The Solar Ivy ☀️🌿
136. Hybrid Takes The Sky With HyBird🛩🔋
135. Retail Fights Back With Connected Tech 🛍
134. Can We Trust Self-Driving Cars? 🚗💥
133. Mighty Morphing All Terrain Robots Made By Nature
132. Blind Spot Begone! Cars and Robots Can Now See Around Corners
131. Megawatt Motors For Electric Flight
130. A Spy In The Belly
129. Burning Paper Bags For Sustainability
128. Key To Unlock Immersive Holograms
127. Pills No More: Patches As The Future of Drug Delivery
126. Amputees Feel Warmth In Their Missing Hand
125. Prompt Engineering: Latest Meme or The Next Big Thing?
124. Authenticating Seeds To 5X Crop Yields
123. Augmented Bad Drivers Turbocharge Autonomous Vehicle Development
122. Preventing Head Trauma With Smart Helmets
121. Power Up Your Wearable Devices with Blood Sugar!
120. Carbon Soaking Concrete
119. Honey, I Printed The Dessert!
118. Sheet Metal Forming Goes High-Tech with Robotics & AI
117. Self Repairing Corrosion Coating
116. Eye of The Storm: NASA’s New Weather & Tropical Storm Tracking Sensors
115. Building Bones with Bacteria-Infused Ink
114. The Big Deal In (Smart) Diapers
113. The Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Rare Diseases
112. Overcoming Risks of AI Misuse
111. Biomimicry From The Ground Up Via Multi-material 3D Printing
110. The Future of Neurology: Neural Interfaces Countering Neural Diseases
109. From Blastoff to Beyond: Ion Thrusters Pushing the Limits of Space Travel
108. Ride Into The Future With BORN’s 3D Printed Motorcycles
107. Mitigating High Emissions of Autonomous Cars
106. Last Meter Delivery Robots
105. Artificial Plants For Renewable Energy
104. Recapping 2022
103. Ant Inspired Swarm Robots
102. Self-Flying Satellite’s Successful Space Mission
101. Fighting Muscle Loss Via Wearables
100. Weaving Nanomaterials With 3D Printed Machine
99. AI Learns How To Be Curious
98. Fighting Wetland Loss From Outer Space
97. Beaming Clean Energy From Space
96. Smart Health Tracking Tattoos
95. Finding Better Cancer Cures By Printing Tumors
94. NASA’s Plan to Crash Land on Mars
93. AI Predicts Sports Games with 80% Accuracy
92. Virtual Physical Therapy
91. MOXIE Makes Oxygen On Mars
90. Solving the Billion Person Sleep Problem
89. The Flying 3D Printers
88. Dall-E, But Better
87. Turbine Innovations For A Greener Future
86. The Autonomous Race & Drift Cars Of The Not So Distant Future
85. The Future of EVs: Hydrogen Hybrids and Plug & Play Platform
84. Printing Ice & Sensing Architected Materials
83. Ultrasound Scanning Stickers & Autonomous Protein Discovery
82. 3D Printing Space Sensors & Solar Cell Windows
81. Printing Functional Hearts & Reverse Engineering Microbes
80. Advanced Tents Saving Firefighters & Mine Sweeping Drones
79. Teaching Robots To Find Buried Objects
78. Microneedle Wearables & Spider Web Inspired Food Packaging For A Healthier Future
77. Scaling Renewables With Novel Energy Harvesting & Storage Technologies
76. Off-roading & Ending Stoplights With Autonomous Cars
75. Size Matters: Tiny Biomimicry Leads to Big Breakthroughs
74. Robots Working on the Moon and in Warehouses
73. Nanometer Fuel Cells & Ultrathin Speakers
72. Spiderweb Inspired & Graphene Enhanced Microchips
71. Green Infrastructure For A More Efficient Future
70. Immersive VR For Treating Phobias & Automotive Development
69. Feet Pics Saving The Planet & Fly Eye Inspired AI
68. Bird-inspired Bipedal Robots & Robotic Surgeons
67. Don’t Lose Your Job Because of Robots or Carbon Dioxide
66. Personalized Exoskeletons & Treating Parkinson's
65. Pizzaiolo Robot & Autonomous Wheelchairs
64. Solution To The Plastic Problem & Smart Fabrics
63. Immune System Inspired AI & Electric Skin
62. AI Powered Devices For Saving Lives & Studying Oceans
61. Big Material Breakthroughs At The Small Scale
60. Wildlife Control & Observation Via UAVs
59. AI For Better Battery Design & Training Microrobots
58. Metadata Embedded Hardware & Flexible OLED Screens
57. Fast Healing Bandages For Astronauts & Organs
56. Fighting Fatigue & Hangovers with Wearable Technology
55. Wearable Tech for Owners and Pets
54. 3D Printing the Engines and Drones of the Future
53. Mind-Control and Bug-Like Robots
52. Drones to Explore Space and Save Lives on Earth
51. Recapping 2021
50. Additive Manufacturing for Eardrums and Nano-Objects
49. What Robots Can Learn from Starfish and Falcons
48. How Robots Can Reproduce and Create Organs
47. Robotic Farming Makes Produce Better & Cheaper
46. Meet The AI Replacing Your Manager
45. Spinning Payloads Into Space
44. How Computer Vision Is Changing Your World
43. Special: Students Building The Future
42. World's Most Advanced Prosthetics
41. The Tesla of Blind Canes
40. Why Plastic Eating Enzymes Will Save Our Oceans
39. The EV You’ll Never Have To Charge
38. Time Traveling With The James Webb Telescope
37. Smart T-Shirts: Next-Gen Astronaut Wearables
36. How To Reinvent Construction Using Robotics
35. The Feisty Crustacean That Inspired A New Generation of Super Robots
34. How 3D Printed Eardrums & Blood Vessels Will Revolutionize Medicine
33. The Solar Panel That Broke The World Record
32. Robot That Will Save Grape Farmers Billions & How Metallic Glass Will Result In Affordable Robotics
31. Dragonfly Explores Titan, Curing Muscular Dystrophy, NeckFace
30. Climate Change AI, Robots Getting You Dressed, Drones Evacuating Nursing Homes
29. Detecting Cancer In Pee, Robotic Neck Brace, Quieter Airplanes
28. AI Policing Social Media, What Marsquakes Can Teach Us, Preventing Lead Poisoning From Solar Panels
27. Nanostructured Shields, Balloon Venusquake Detection, 20% Brighter OLED
26. Hugging Robots, Scalable Solar Fuel, Non-Invasive Spinal Implants
25. Solar Sailing, Preventing Cyber Attacks, Space Trash Robot
24. MIT’s Magic Carpet, Nanoparticles in Your Food, Turning Fabric into Smart Devices
23. Bird-Inspired Drone Wings, Scaling Digital Twins, Tracking Microplastics From Space
22. How to Turn Gum into Shoes, Reducing CO2 in Construction by 40%, High-Speed Flying Boats
21. AI Rescues Firefighters, NASA Prints Spacecraft Parts, Plug & Play Prosthetics
20. NASA’s New Moon Buggy, Rock Picking Robot, Super-Strong Concrete
19. Injectable Microchips, 2D Transistors, AI For Spacecraft Diagnosis
18. Artificial Electronic Nose, Wastewater To Energy, Satellite Farm Monitoring
17. Tissue Printing During Surgery, Hair Brushing Robots, Smaller & Cheaper Batteries
16. Lobster Inspired Armor, Wireless EV Charging, Autonomous Solar Farm Setup
15. Charm's Carbon Offsets, Fitness Trainer Drones, MIT Studies Sound Waves In The North Pole
14. NASA’s Asteroid Mission, Organic Polymers in HVAC, Beer Factories with 3D Printers
13. AlphaFold Solves Protein Folding, NASA Protects Firefighters, Autonomous Shuttles Debut In Denmark
12. Ford Trucks Made From Trash, NASA’s Ingenuity Drone, Snake-Inspired Nonslip Shoes
11. Neuralink, Airspeeder: The Flying Car, Carbon Footprint & Computer Chips
10. Sustainable Fashion, Apple Car Insights, Sharper Bionic Eyes
9. Nissan’s Big Hybrid Bet, 3D Printing Your Future Home, NYPD’s RoboPup
8. Eliminating Emissions With IoT, Shapeshifting Fabrics, Fuel Cell Flight
7. Diagnosing Alzheimer’s At A Glance, The Stress You Sweat, Bloom’s Better Bioplastics
6. Beating Bias In AI, Anti-Tremor Gloves, AR Assisted Surgery
5. Making Rocket Fuel on Mars, Sustainable Transparent Wood, Plants Preventing Poisoning
4. 3D Printing Organs, The AI DJ, Next-Gen Weather Satellites
3. AI for Mechanical Design, the Key to Thwarting Quantum Hackers, Making Better Batteries
2. Boom Brings Back Supersonic, Using AI to Beat TB, 5G is Messing Up Weather Forecasts
1. Abstract Machine Learning, 3D Printing Airplanes, Learning Flight From Flies
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