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Devices & inventions

Professor Lining Yao with models created in the Morphing Matter Lab.

Inspired by nature, engineering professor’s designs fold, move and morph

07/03/25 — UC Berkeley’s Morphing Matter Lab is transforming what’s possible in engineering design with their biomimetic materials
Drew McPherson and Hannah Stuart demonstrate the newest version of the Dorsal Grasper in the Embodied Dexterity Group’s lab at UC Berkeley.

Q+A on assistive devices

06/11/25 — The Dorsal Grasper enables grasping with supernumerary robotic fingers on the back of the user's hand.
Photo of a brightly colored peacock

UC Berkeley scientists trick the eye into seeing new color ‘olo’

04/22/25 — Innovative technique provides new insight into the nature of color vision and vision loss
Runner tying her shoe next to a bottle of water.

Don’t sweat it!

04/15/25 — Wearable sweat sensor can track your hydration status during physical and mental activities
Ashmita Kumar, UC Berkeley M.E.T. student.

Ashmita Kumar’s startup aims to detect signs of stroke and save lives

03/31/25 — Using AI and an iPhone, Berkeley EECS student seeks to improve stroke health care
Yunsup Lee holding RISC V prototype chip.

‘RISC architecture is gonna change everything’

03/31/25 — Wired: David Patterson, CS professor emeritus and inventor of RISC, explains how words from the 1995 movie Hackers may hold true today
Macro shot of white insect-sized drone held in fingertips of a UC Berkeley researcher.

Berkeley engineers create world’s smallest wireless flying robot

03/28/25 — The bumblebee-inspired robot, less than a centimeter in diameter, can hover, change directions and even hit small targets.
The Dorsal Grasper assistive device, developed by UC Berkeley engineers, facilitates human-robot collaborative grasping. Its supernumerary robotic fingers on the back of the hand are grasping a tennis ball.

New assistive device enhances grasping for people with spinal cord injuries

02/10/25 — Dorsal Grasper provides an intuitive, collaborative grasping approach
SpaceCAL 3D printer awaiting June 2024 launch on VSS Unity; Taylor Waddell (inset)

Manufacturing in microgravity

11/20/24 — Berkeley researchers sent their 3D printing technology to space as part of the Virgin Galactic 07 mission.
Illustration of a person with the earbuds that can help them stay awake. Illustration by Adobe Stock and Adam Lau

Staying alert

11/20/24 — Engineers have designed earbuds that can detect signs of drowsiness in the brain.
Lung cancer metastasis.

Powerful new mini microscope will enable precision cancer surgery

08/22/24 — UCSF: Researchers win up to $15 million from ARPA-H to develop next-gen miniature scanner to detect individual cancer cells during surgery
Woman driving car while drowsy.

Dozing at the wheel? Not with these fatigue-detecting earbuds

08/05/24 — Berkeley researchers have created earpieces that identify brain activity associated with relaxation and drowsiness
Spaceflight feather, as viewed aboard VSS Unity on June 8, 2024. The Virgin Galactic 07 flight carried Berkeley’s SpaceCal 3D printer and four other research payloads.

Berkeley researchers send 3D printer into space

07/02/24 — SpaceCAL tests the limits of additive manufacturing on Virgin Galactic 07 mission
Hands wearing blue gloves hold a tongue-controlled MouthPad^ touchpad.

A new paradigm

05/31/24 — Augmental, a company co-founded by alum Corten Singer, has developed a unique tongue-controlled touchpad.
Paige Balcom, Tomás Vega and Corten Singer, from left, Berkeley alums featured in the award-winning documentary “Pathways to Invention.”

UC Berkeley innovators featured in ‘Pathways to Invention’ film

04/26/24 — Special to debut in May on PBS stations and streaming apps
Traditionally, fluorescence microscopes (blue images) are used to image tumors. A new image sensor (purple images) could do the same, less invasively.

Tiny sensor aims to monitor tumors in real time

04/19/24 — IEEE Spectrum: Novel device could potentially provide a better alternative to biopsies
Photo of Augmental co-founder Corten Singer (B.A.’17 CS, B.A.’17 CogSci, M.S.’18 EECS).

Berkeley alum develops tongue-controlled touchpad

01/30/24 — Corten Singer (B.A.’17 CS, B.A.’17 CogSci, M.S.’18 EECS) seeks to create a new paradigm in assistive technologies
Image showing a view of planet Earth and a comet from space.

Small solar sails could be the next ‘giant leap’ for interplanetary space exploration

01/10/24 — Researchers aim to create a fleet of low-cost, autonomous spacecraft propelled by light particles
Nanoengineered steel mesh with a special solar-powered coating

In a fog

11/06/23 — A new technique for fog harvesting could provide millions of people with access to safe drinking water.
orange Staghorn Montipora coral

A cool way to save coral

11/06/23 — Technology developed by Berkeley engineers has been used to cryopreserve and revive entire coral fragments.
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