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

The Next Byte Podcast · 6 Apr 2021 · 17m

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Hosts Daniel and Forbode discuss three engineering stories: Ford and HP's partnership to upcycle 3D printer waste from SmileDirectClub into fuel-line clips for the F-250; NASA's Ingenuity drone, a rotorcraft carried by the Perseverance rover designed to test powered flight on Mars; and a joint MIT-Harvard project creating snake-inspired nonslip shoes using Kirigami to prevent falls. The episode highlights material science innovations, extreme environment engineering, and biomimetic design.

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Companies: Ford, HP, SmileDirectClub, NASA, MIT, Harvard
Products: F-250, Ingenuity, Perseverance

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

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