On the episode, we discuss these topics:

1. Robots are being trained to perform contact-free measurements of patients’ vital signs.
2. Can your cell-phone be re-charged using your body heat?
3. How does a baseball player know when to swing and when not to? We discuss the neuroscience behind split-second decision-making.
4. A biotech company develops an ingestible device that fixes itself in the stomach.
5. Finally, what is quantum internet and can it make internet hacking a thing of the past?

References

Robot takes contact-free measurements of patients’ vital signs
https://news.mit.edu/2020/spot-robot-vital-signs-0831

Burmistrov, I., Gorshkov, N., Kovyneva, N., Kolesnikov, E., Khaidarov, B., Gopalu, K., ... & Gorokhovsky, A. (2020). High seebeck coefficient thermo-electrochemical cell using nickel hollow microspheres electrodes. Renewable Energy.

Ming Ma, Gregory L. Futia, Fabio M. Simoes de Souza, Baris N. Ozbay, Isabel Llano, Emily A. Gibson, Diego Restrepo. Molecular layer interneurons in the cerebellum encode for valence in associative learning. Nature Communications, 2020; 11 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18034-2

Abramson, A., Dellal, D., Kong, Y. L., Zhou, J., Gao, Y., Collins, J., ... & Frederiksen, M. R. (2020). Ingestible transiently anchoring electronics for microstimulation and conductive signaling. Science Advances, 6(35), eaaz0127.

Joshi, S. K., Aktas, D., Wengerowsky, S., Loncaric, F., Neumann, S. P., Liu, B., ... & Stipcevic, M. (2020, May). A trusted-node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network. Science Advances (2020) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba0959

#4- Robot nurses, Edible devices, Quantum internet, Battery charging with bodyheat