Mar 01, 2021
Go into a science or engineering laboratory. Close your eyes. And listen.
In a biotechnology lab, you might hear the squelch of motors of an automated sample-handling system. In a soft-robotics test facility, you might hear the pneumatic sounds of air filling and evacuating from artificial muscles. In a genomics center, you might hear the monotone hum of cooling fans from a bank of gene-sequencing machines. In each setting, you can hear a sonic fingerprint of what goes on there.
Welcome to Sounds of Innovation, an intermittent feature of our Voices from DARPA podcast. Rather than hearing the voices of program managers, which is normally what you get in a Voices from DARPA podcast, in each Sounds of Innovation episode, you will hear some of the soundscapes of research and development … and learn just a little bit about the world-changing capabilities those sounds could lead to. See if you can guess how the sounds were produced before our podcast host reveals their origin.
- Blubrry (podcast host): https://blubrry.com/voices_from_darpa/74295980/episode-40-sounds-of-innovation-2/
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/IUmA3pWOQ1g
- iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voices-from-darpa/id1163190520