Hardware Podcasts

23. Bird-Inspired Drone Wings, Scaling Digital Twins, Tracking Microplastics From Space

The Next Byte Podcast · 22 Jun 2021 · 22m

What this episode covers

Hosts Daniel Scott Mitchell and Farbod Moghaddam discuss three engineering breakthroughs: Christina Harvey’s PhD research at UMich on seagull-inspired morphable drone wings for stability; Michael Capton’s MIT framework for scaling digital twins across physical assets like UAVs and health monitors; and UMich researchers repurposing NASA’s CYGNSS satellites to track microplastic pollution in the ocean.

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makers and hobbyists

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University of Michigan, MIT, Aurora Flight Sciences, Waymo
Products
Apple Watch
Also
Christina Harvey, Michael Capton, NASA CYGNSS, Sentinel 6

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