The Next Byte
We're two engineers on a mission to make interesting technology easy to understand. In each episode, we explore tech that is going to change the world – and keep it entertaining along the way.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 228
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
47. Robotic Farming Makes Produce Better & Cheaper
(1:41) - Adaptive Swarm Robotics Could Revolutionize Agriculture 🚜🤖
(12:11) - Autonomous Agricultural Robots Revolutionize Organic Farming 🌾🚜
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46. Meet The AI Replacing Your Manager
(5:04) - Deep Fake AI Pioneering Material Design Discoveries
(13:50) - Automating Engineering’s Ideal Manager
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45. Spinning Payloads Into Space
(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 …
44. How Computer Vision Is Changing Your World
(1:00) - Detecting Unwanted & Hazardous Objects With Vision AI 🤖👁
(16:20) - Robot Trained To Remove Weeds From Organic Fields🤖🚜
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43. Special: Students Building The Future
(2:30) - Recycling Batteries 🔋♻️
(5:40) - Electric Aircraft🛩⚡️
(9:10) - Swissloop Tunneling🚄🕳
(12:10) - Hydrogen Powered Race Car🚙⚡️
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42. World's Most Advanced Prosthetics
(1:11) - Accelerating New Material Discovery 🔬⚗️
(11:40) - World’s Most Advanced Prosthetics 🦾🦿
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41. The Tesla of Blind Canes
(1:03) - Self-navigating Smart Cane 🦯
(15:16) - Enhanced Touchscreens 📱
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40. Why Plastic Eating Enzymes Will Save Our Oceans
(1:11) - How Patagonia is saving the oceans, one hat at a time 🌊
(12:00) - Samsara - the “infinite recycling” startup ♻️
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39. The EV You’ll Never Have To Charge
(1:00) - Lightyear One - The EV that runs on solar power
(16:45) - Czinger - The 3D Printed Car That Beat The Best
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38. Time Traveling With The James Webb Telescope
(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 …
37. Smart T-Shirts: Next-Gen Astronaut Wearables
(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 wh…
36. How To Reinvent Construction Using Robotics
(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. Uni…
35. The Feisty Crustacean That Inspired A New Generation of Super Robots
(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 …
34. How 3D Printed Eardrums & Blood Vessels Will Revolutionize Medicine
(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 …
33. The Solar Panel That Broke The World Record
(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…
32. Robot That Will Save Grape Farmers Billions & How Metallic Glass Will Result In Affordable Robotics
(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 …
31. Dragonfly Explores Titan, Curing Muscular Dystrophy, NeckFace
(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 - ha…
30. Climate Change AI, Robots Getting You Dressed, Drones Evacuating Nursing Homes
(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 …
29. Detecting Cancer In Pee, Robotic Neck Brace, Quieter Airplanes
(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 s…
28. AI Policing Social Media, What Marsquakes Can Teach Us, Preventing Lead Poisoning From Solar Panels
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(0:47) - AI Struggles To Police Social Media:
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