A 21st Century Space Suit with Dr. Ana Diaz Artiles Spherical Cows

Dr. Ana Diaz Artiles is an engineering professor at Texas A&M University researching ways to further human space flight by designing a novel space suit. Her lab’s recent work to develop the SmartSuit concept combines soft-robotics, biometric monitoring, and advances in material sciences to bring Extravehicular Activity suits into the 21st century.  We talk artificial gravity, problem-solving as an engineer, and working with the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA in this exciting episode.
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Health and Human Performance Lab: https://bhp.engr.tamu.edu/people/ana-diaz-artiles-ph-d/ 
NASA SmartSuit: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/SmartSuit/ 
Dr. Diaz Artiles’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/adartiles 
Health and Human Performance Lab Twitter: https://twitter.com/TAMU_BHP 
Mouse Study Using Artificial Gravity: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-019-0077-0 
Animal Studies for Artificial or Microgravity: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2016.00021/full