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3, D printer dispenses layers of orange substance next to smaller orange masses. Title card reads, " 3,D Printed Food."

Still image from: Engineering Your Future: Computer and Electronic Engineer--Claude (Middle School Edition)

Illustration of interconnected objects coming apart where light hits. Caption: The light causes the short chains to disassemble

Gauge in a vehicle with a range of 0 to 8. The indicator is at 1 and the gauge is labeled RPMx1000. Caption: How do electric vehicles compare with other cars?

Fine white tubes grow in the same direction. Caption: and carbon nanotubes grow like blades of grass.

Collage with black and white illustration of a twelfth century Chinese man holding out a scrap of paper. A red lantern on a pole overhead. Red prohibited symbol covers image of 2 gold bars.

Still image from: Lights On! Ike Hoover Electrifies the White House

Still image from: Meet the Helpers: How Do Public Service Workers Help the Community

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Concentration Camps Are Older Than World War II

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Still image from: Origin of Everything: Who Invented Christmas Lights?

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Do TV Shows Use Laugh Tracks?

A telescope built on the top of a mountain. Caption: Large synoptic survey telescope. Science office slash L S S T project slash N S F slash A U R A.

Person in a lab setting with a mostly clear object in their hands. Scissors, wires with leads, and tweezers are on the counter next to them. Caption: We're trying to make a smart Band-Aid

Person placing a tennis ball between the finger and thumb of a robotic hand. Caption: RAPHaEL is a relatively inexpensive robotic hand.

People in an operating theater with a patient on the table. Caption: is implanted surgically and stimulates nerves

Close up circuitry. Penny included for scale. Circuitry is smaller than the penny. Caption: at the University of Maryland are building microrobots,

Two rectangular drones flying in the air. Caption: fly safely and avoid collision on their own.

Person holding a small partially transparent cube with wires and other equipment attached. Caption: and are developing microbial fuel cells

Mountain lion in a tree. Caption: They are hard to study.

Person working on a robotic leg that is wearing a shoe. Caption: This is a battery that powers everything.

Microscopic view of cells. Some are blue and some are larger and red. Caption: on how to make early cancer detection cheaper.

Underwater view of billowing plume of pollutant. Caption: cleaning up oil spills and purifying water.

SUV with sensors, cameras, and other equipment attached to the bumper, hood, and roof. Caption: (male narrator) Imagine a car that drives itself and knows the rules.

Gloved hand holding a round plastic object and putting an electronic chip into it. Caption: to incorporate nanotechnologies into the process.

Person holding a tubular instrument to their eye. Caption: (narrator) You might say the chemiscope of an agent of change,

Computer screen showing the closeup of a human eye with crosshairs over the pupil. Caption: and nearly impossible to fool or spoof.

A light blue and white stripped caterpillar on a person's finger. Caption: (male) This little guy can grip, hold, and move.

Person touching an object made of stacked and connected cubes. Caption: are playing with Cubelets, small, smart modular robots.

Person sitting at a table across from a robot. On the table in front of them are objects of different shapes and colors. Caption: Would you put the green object with one peg into the red box?

Closeup view of very thin wires forming concentric squares and other geometric patterns. Caption: these circuits are thinner than a hair

Test tubes of blood. Caption: use biomarkers: biochemical signatures in blood,

Funnel with filter feeding into a receptacle. The fluid in the filter is dark and the filter is dirty. Caption: She's developing fluoride filtering devices

Brightly colored tropical fish. Caption: how they work together to execute underwater maneuvers,

Computer screen showing a bar graph and pie chart of energy consumption in watt-hours. Caption: showing me which devices are consuming the most energy.

Tool emitting bright light cutting circles into wood. Caption: (narrator) Tools, including this laser cutter and wood router,

Computer screen showing the aerial view of a multi-story building and thumbnail views of other buildings. Caption: It's part of a new computing concept

Child sitting in a chair under bright lights looking at a small humanoid robot on a table some distance in front of them. An adult stands by. Caption: It doesn't overstimulate or overwhelm a child with autism.

Semi-trailer with large cylindrical tanks labelled as Hydrogen, Compressed. Caption:(narrator) Hydrogen is hailed as the fuel of the future --

Large industrial machine moving across a cultivated field. Caption: could precisely communicate an entire crop's water needs.

Gloved hand holding two small dark discs. Caption: to bring ultra-high-temperature ceramics to marketplace.

3D graphic of a mostly cylindrical object with a rotor on top against a backdrop of grass and buildings. Caption: the brain's signal to control the quadcopter.

Diagram of an orange sphere. Part of the shell of the sphere is removed to show the white interior. On the surface of the sphere are small, brightly colored spots. Caption: help protect against the toxins they make.

Microscopic view of a hexagonal structure with arms hovering above a spherical object. Caption: Cell-sized micro grippers retrieve tiny objects,

Rectangular robot with a screen at eye level. Caption: (male narrator) Meet CoBot, short for "Collaborative Robot."

Person with a device attached to their head behind and above their ear and a wire leading to a device that is affixed to the back of their ear. Caption: It's called a cochlear implant, and it helps me hear.

Mosquito on a person's skin. Caption: it would scare them away.

Computer diagram with icons representing two people. The previous paths of the people are also shown. Caption: A firefighter outfitted with a sensor

Person with a control box in their hands standing next to a short, wide robot with legs. Caption: (narrator) Palmer sees broad applications for these smart legs:

Dirty water with bubbles and PVC pipes. Caption: and reused again and again in a sustainable loop.

Complex machinery with a platform. Caption: a treatment or vaccine for a particular patient.

Robot with an arm moving bottles next to a sink. Caption: (male narrator) Here's how to take the drudgery from housework.

Robotic arm placing a baseball hat on a water bottle. Caption: at Barrett Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts,

Lizard walking in a clear Plexiglas box. Caption: This is a sandfish, and his slithering moves

Ceiling security camera footage showing store aisles. Caption: to track shoppers as they move in the store and create data

Setting sun as seen through tall wild grasses. Caption: to harness the sun's energy to make renewable fuels.

The sun seen closely enough to show the light and dark pattern of the surface. Caption: Their mission: put the heat of the sun to work,

Several young people working on an object. Caption: the first all-female African-American RoboCup team.

Person in scrubs looking into an enclosed space while manipulating controls with both hands. Caption: (narrator) Surgeons like Yuh come here to test the robots.

Computer screen showing a line graph of multiple measurements taken at different times. Caption: to add the ultra-fine layers of semiconducting materials

Person with a headset being placed on their head. Caption: (narrator) The headset he is wearing allows him to steer

McCormick Northwest Engineering. The 2009 hurricane season heats up: Ana, Claudette, and Bill. McCormick studios. Caption: (narrator) This is a virtual newscast.

Person standing with a touch screen in their hands in front of a screen d9male) displaying 3D representations of the connections between spherical objects. Caption: (male) You can immerse yourself in your data in 3-D.

Waves striking a man-made jetty of rock. Caption: could help solve the world's energy problems.

Model of a human head being brushed by whiskers attached to wires protruding from a metal post. Caption: by a set of artificial wire whiskers,

Map with areas shaded in different colors and patterns. Some locations are identified with text and others have lines of various patters indicating potential behavior of the fire. Caption: Their software will generate behavior models of the fire,

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2215)

Still image from: What Is the Internet?