2011

S1.E1 ∙ Co2

Sat, Jan 08, 2011

In this episode of Innovation Nation, we'll uncover the work of Dr Malcolm Wilson, a Nobel prize-winning scientist at the University of Regina on the Canadian prairie. We'll explore the world changing potential in the science behind Dr Klaus Lackner's artificial tree, experiment with the tree in Times Square, and test the results with Dr Lackner at Columbia University, New York. And we'll witness a groundbreaking process of Carbon Sciences in Santa Barbara, California, that could turn Co2 from foe into friend.

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S1.E2 ∙ Windpower

Sat, Jan 15, 2011

In this episode of Innovation Nation, we'll meet backyard inventor and wind power visionary, Californian Doug Selsam. Doug's life's work and mission has been to discover a new way of harnessing wind energy. Innovation Nation follows Doug from his patent and design-filled home office in Los Angeles to the edge of the Mojave desert to see him erect a small scale version of his super turbine. And on the Canadian prairies, we'll see how Barry Ireland of VBINE ENERGY in Moosomin, Saskatchewan, has come up with his own variation on wind turbines.

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S1.E3 ∙ Biofuels

Sat, Jan 22, 2011

Canadian drag racer and mechanic extraordinaire Kevin Therres tests his jet-engine-powered truck on the racetrack with a biofuel. We'll meet English University team led by Dr Kerry Kirwan and their biofueled British Formula 3 car that's been built from the ground up - literally. And we'll see the aviation fuel of the future with aviation pioneer and biofuels visionary, Doug Rodante in Florida.

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S1.E4 ∙ Communications

Sat, Jan 29, 2011

Star Trek medical practice comes to earth via high speed internet and the RP-7 robot at Palm Drive Hospital in Sebastopol, California. The RP-7 is an internet-enabled mobile robotic platform that allows a physician to be remotely present in a patient's room and still be able to see and understand vital signs. Dr Jim Gude of Palm Drive Hospital demonstrates this out-of-this-world technology. And developer of the RP-7, Yulun Wang of InTouch Health in Santa Barbara, explains to us how the technology came about and what wireless and high speed internet might mean for the future of medicine.

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S1.E5 ∙ Robots at Work

Sat, Feb 05, 2011

The team at Robotic Systems and Technologies in New York City, led by Dr Michael Treat, put their robotic sterile supply nurse, named Penelope CS, through her paces and show her evolution from robotic scrub nurse to her current incarnation. And over on the west coast, Dr Jacob Rosen of the Bionics Lab at UC Santa Cruz demos the future in robotic surgery and bionics.

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S1.E6 ∙ Artificial Intelligence

Sat, Feb 12, 2011

In this episode of Innovation Nation, we'll witness the future of intelligent robotics. At Willow Garage in California, Dr Brian Gerkey explains open source robotics and the PR2 robot's sprint of intelligent activities through the building. At the Robot Perception and Action Lab at the University of South Florida, Dr Yu Sun shows us a robotic arm that can learn how to crush or cradle. And at Georgia Tech, with Dr Andrea Thomaz, we see what the humanoid robot Simon says, and does.

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