The idea is so simple, it's either superbrilliant or wer crazy. Andreas ignored the question mark and still built a working nose. But what's kind of spooky here is that what's going on in nano, knows, might not be the exact thing that's happening in a dog's head. Andreas doesn't really know. He just knows that it works. It does work. Like he built this sort of andreas showed that it could smell certain molecules that darpa was interested in. The real world is just way harder. You know, there's all these smells bouncing around. We don't understand what the dog thinks about we don't know
Dogs can smell cancer, Covid-19, and many other health problems in humans. Now, scientists are trying to duplicate these powers in robotic sniffers. But there’s a big challenge here: Scientists don’t really understand how smell works. This is the third episode of our six-part series, Making Sense, and it originally ran on March 10, 2021.
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