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Building Boundary-Breaking Balloons
Season 1 Episode 91
Kai Marshland is the co-founder and chief product officer at WindBorne Systems. Kai's problem is this: How do you build weather balloons that can stay in the air for months at a time, and pair the da…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Building a Robot That Can Walk the Walk
Season 1 Episode 90
Jonathan Hurst is a professor at Oregon State University, and co-founder and chief robot officer at Agility Robotics. Jonathan's problem is this: How do you design a robot that can walk and do useful…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Can Your Phone Tell When You're Getting Sick?
Season 1 Episode 89
What does sickness sound like? Sometimes it’s obvious, like a cough, sniffle, or stuffy nose. But some conditions cause subtle changes that only a trained ear – or AI – can detect. Dr. Yael Bensoussa…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
The High-Stakes Quest to Reinvent Cement
Season 1 Episode 88
Cement is, almost literally, everywhere. It is extraordinarily useful, which is why humanity makes 4 billion metric tons of it every year. But cement is also extremely carbon intensive to produce. Le…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
How a Battery-Powered Stove Could Electrify America
Season 1 Episode 87
Sam D'Amico is the founder and CEO of Impulse Labs, a company that makes induction stoves, with a clever twist. Sam’s problem is this: How do you build an electric cooktop that works just as well as …
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
3D Printing a Better Rocket
Season 1 Episode 86
Tim Ellis is the co-founder and CEO of Relativity Space, a company with a unique approach to manufacturing rockets. Tim’s problem is this: How can you use 3D printing to make rockets more efficiently…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Using AI to Help Doctors Save Lives
Season 1 Episode 85
Every year in the U.S., tens of thousands of hospital patients die of preventable causes. For many of these patients, warning signs are subtle and easy for doctors to miss. Suchi Saria is the founder…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Making Dam Good Hydropower
Season 1 Episode 84
Gia Schneider is the co-founder and CEO of Natel Energy, a company that is trying to transform the way hydroelectric power works. Gia’s problem is this: how do you draw hydropower from rivers without…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Using AI to Build Better Robots
Season 1 Episode 83
Peter Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Covariant. Peter’s problem is this: How do you take the AI breakthroughs of the past decade or so, and make them work in robots? Peter was one of the first emp…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Teaching Computers to See
Season 1 Episode 82
Fei-Fei Li is a Stanford computer scientist and the former chief scientist of artificial intelligence/machine learning at Google Cloud. When Li entered the field of AI in the 2000s, researchers were …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago