17. Tissue Printing During Surgery, Hair Brushing Robots, Smaller & Cheaper Batteries

The Next Byte Podcast · 11 May 2021 · 20m

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Hosts Daniel and Forbode discuss three engineering breakthroughs: Professor Ibrahim Ozbolat’s team at Penn State developing bio-inks for in-situ 3D printing of hard and soft tissue during surgery; a joint MIT and Harvard project creating a robot to brush patients' hair to reduce nurse workload; and Professor Pen Bai’s team at Washington University in St. Louis demonstrating anode-free sodium batteries that solve dendrite formation by controlling water content in the electrolyte.

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Companies: Penn State University, MIT, Harvard, Panasonic, Washington University in St. Louis, Samsung, Tesla, Columbia
Also: Ibrahim Ozbolat, Pen Bai

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17. Tissue Printing During Surgery, Hair Brushing Robots, Smaller & Cheaper Batteries

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