# 156. 2023 Recap & First Annual Saucies!🥫🍾

- Show: [The Next Byte Podcast](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast)
- Published: 2024-01-09
- Length: 28m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2024-01-09-156-2023-recap-first-annual-saucies
- Listen: https://the-next-byte-wevolver.simplecast.com/episodes/156-2023-recap-first-annual-saucies-mTItIHmq

## Summary

Hosts Daniel and Forbode of The Next Byte Podcast present their 1st annual 'Saucies' awards, reviewing their top episodes from 2023. They highlight EPFL's technology allowing amputees to feel warmth in prosthetic hands, Machina's robotics for sheet metal forming, and a University of Michigan/Copenhagen Business School study on keeping humans in the AI loop. The hosts also discuss an MIT implantable diabetes device and smart retail technologies from Wevolver, while outlining goals for more in-person interviews and multi-channel growth in 2024.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2024-01-09-156-2023-recap-first-annual-saucies#t=0) Introduction: The Next Byte Podcast 3rd Anniversary and Saucies Awards
- [3:40](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2024-01-09-156-2023-recap-first-annual-saucies#t=220) Most Interesting: EPFL Prosthetic Hand Warmth Technology
- [8:38](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2024-01-09-156-2023-recap-first-annual-saucies#t=518) Listener Favorite: Machina Robotics Sheet Metal Forming
- [12:14](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2024-01-09-156-2023-recap-first-annual-saucies#t=734) Most Impactful: University of Michigan and Copenhagen Business School AI Policy
- [16:25](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2024-01-09-156-2023-recap-first-annual-saucies#t=985) Hidden Gems: MIT Implantable Diabetes Device and Smart Retail Technology
- [21:41](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2024-01-09-156-2023-recap-first-annual-saucies#t=1301) Honorable Mention and 2024 Goals: In-Person Interviews and Growth

## Topics

- [Medical & health devices](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/medical-devices)
- [Robotics & autonomy](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/robotics-and-autonomy)
- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Connected products & IoT](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/connected-products-and-iot)
- [Industrial & consumer product design](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/industrial-design)
- [Creator business](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/creator-business)

## Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

## Mentioned

- EPFL (company)
- Machina (company)
- University of Michigan (company)
- Copenhagen Business School (company)
- MIT (company)

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- [Ep 330: Hover Turtles, Dull Designs, and K'nex Computers](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2025-07-25-ep-330-hover-turtles-dull-designs-and-knex-computers) (Hackaday Podcast)
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- [Ep 203: Flashlight Fuel Fails, Weird DMA Machines, and a 3D Printed Prosthetic Hand Flex](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hackaday-podcast/2023-01-27-ep-203-flashlight-fuel-fails-weird-dma-machines-and-a-3d-printed-prosthetic-hand) (Hackaday Podcast)
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