Gecko Gripper to Clean Up Space Junk https://youtu.be/7R5-3UKFRvY PostedJune 24, 2021 orbit, Earth, nasa, iss, international space station, astrobee, astronaut FOE alum Marco Pavone at Stanford has engineered a robotic gripper equipped with grippy but not sticky gecko-inspired adhesives that could be particularly well-suited for tasks such as collecting debris and servicing satellites.
Humans Cause Traffic Jams, AI Can Fix Them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMRziLak2Zo&t=1s PostedApril 7, 2021 Traffic causes a litany of problems for society, from increased emissions to accidents. FOE alum Alexandre Bayen thinks automated vehicles will help us finally solve it.
The Future is Out There https://youtu.be/rl5Ef9eebHA PostedFebruary 9, 2021 In this interview of Martin Cooper, who conceived the first portable cellular phone in 1973, NAE illustrates the importance of encouraging current and future generations of engineers and entrepreneurs to think big and bold.
Learning About the Heart Through Music https://youtu.be/42TRIL9MeOA PostedDecember 4, 2020 engineer FOE alum Elaine Chew at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique illustrated similarities between music and arrhythmia in a series of short piano pieces based on cardiac electrical anomalies (audio starts about a minute in).
Recycling Water Bottles Into a Nanomaterial for Energy Storage https://youtu.be/ljnSJBuAn4k PostedAugust 28, 2020 Mihri and Cengiz Ozkan at the University of California, Riverside (USFOE 2008) are engineering a way to recycle plastic waste, such as soda or water bottles, into a nanomaterial useful for energy storage, which could reduce plastic pollution and hasten the transition to 100% clean energy.
Old Robot Has New Tricks https://youtu.be/qFmeHPVtK0o PostedJuly 11, 2019 At the University of California, Berkeley, Ronald Fearing (USFOE 2001) has engineered a jumping robot with control systems that allow the agile machine to master increasingly complex tasks.
Digital Holographic Microscopy for 3D Imaging of Complex Fluids and Biological Systems https://youtu.be/bkm26rNozqA PostedJanuary 23, 2019
Spiderwebs That Sing https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=xvT-HcWMAaQ PostedJanuary 14, 2019 acoustical, spider silk, materials science, sine wave, FOE alum Markus Buehler at MIT engineered "Spider’s Canvas," an exploration that sonifies the threads of a spider web by applying different frequencies of sound to different lengths of spider webs. Spider webs feature hierarchical structures similar to the complex harmonies and rhythms music.
Engineering and Science for Grades 6-12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBpZ22VBcb8 PostedDecember 3, 2018 Centering science instruction around investigation and design can improve learning in middle and high schools and help students make sense of phenomena in the world around them.
Watch Grand Challenges for Engineering Speaker Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGuzFHPdzyU PostedNovember 13, 2018 NAE member Edward Kavazanjian, Jr. at Arizona State University discusses the Grand Challenge to restore and improve urban infrastructure within the theme of sustainability as part of NAE's engaging speaker series in partnership with the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network.
Will AI Diversify Human Thinking or Replace It? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2bjRbt1TjE&feature=youtu.be PostedOctober 29, 2018 A new global study from Tata Communications and UC Berkeley Professor Ken Goldberg separates fact from fiction and shows how AI could lead to a more productive and inclusive future for humans.
FEMA at the ResilientAmerica Roundtable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV2VUi39yvo&feature=youtu.be PostedSeptember 14, 2018 Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate discussed the agency’s whole-community approach to emergency management in an interview during a workshop hosted by the ResilientAmerica Roundtable.
Testbed for Connected and Automated Vehicles https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=RdO9NAZqUzc PostedApril 30, 2018 FOE alum Andreas Malikopoulos at the University of Delaware has built a driver simulation testbed for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) to study their energy usage and interaction with human-driven vehicles.
Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqhv3GgTdtA#t=54 PostedApril 5, 2018 This video introduces a new study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine asserting that climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for--and in many cases is already affecting--a broad range of human and natural systems.
Tumbling Magnetic Microbots on Fantastic Voyage https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=obwvH78hGLY PostedMarch 8, 2018 drug delivery, Multiscale Robotics and Automation Lab, micromachine, Purdue University's David Cappelleri (GAFOE 2015) has engineered microbots measuring around 400 by 800µm which can act as medical microbots to deliver drugs to specific points inside the body.
TEDx Talk - Drive Innovation Through Cognitive Diversity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ZuUQGtIpc PostedDecember 4, 2017 Creativ, logic, reasoning, productivity Boeing's Li Chun Chang (GAFOE 2017) shares how creating a diverse thinking culture can improve gap intelligence and integrate creative, constructive and strategic thinking for innovation.
Watch the NAE Forum on Autonomy on Land and Sea and in the Air and Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHcxCcfrQSk&feature=youtu.be PostedNovember 21, 2017 Claire Tomlin of UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Jim Bellingham of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Raj Rajkumar of Carnegie Mellon University, and MiMi Aung of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory addressed developments in autonomous technologies used in unmanned aircraft and space exploration systems, autonomous ships, and self-driving cars.
Take One Robot, Add Nunchucks http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/watch-robot-use-nunchucks-after-learning-... PostedOctober 12, 2017 Watch a robot use nunchucks after learning like a human student would. Researchers have now shown a robot how to flip nunchucks to demonstrate an intuitive approach for teaching complex manual tasks.
The 2017 Solar Eclipse, Set to Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzXWPciTcAI&t=32s PostedSeptember 5, 2017 Are you having eclipse withdrawal? Enjoy this video, with music composed by FOE alum David Fogel at Natural Selection.
New Robot Grows Like Vine to Reach Tight Spaces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRjFFgAZQnk&feature=youtu.be PostedAugust 4, 2017 FOE alum Allison Okamura at Stanford is developing a soft robot that can stretch like a vine, which one day may be used to look for disaster victims in collapsed buildings and probe blood vessels of medical patients.