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Episode #767 – An Author, a Tricorder and a Robot

SIDEWALKS host Lori Rosales interviews author Rick Riordan (“The Trials of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy”), while host Richard R. Lee talks to Basil Leaf Technologies’ Dr. Basil Harris about his real medical tricorder and SoftBank Robotics America’s Omar Abdelwahed about the first humanoid robot named Pepper at Silicon Valley Comic Con’s tech event. Plus, music by Kaleido (“Trouble In Paradise”).

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Special Feature: Medical Tricorder

We have seen Dr. McCoy used his tricorder to examine his patients on the original “Star Trek” series. Now, Dr. Basil Harris, an emergency medicine physician, and George Harris, a network engineer, have designed a working prototype that recently won top prize at Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE.

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