• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Departments
    • Bioengineering
    • Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
    • Engineering Science
    • Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
    • Materials Science and Engineering
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Nuclear Engineering
  • News
    • Berkeley Engineer magazine
    • Social media
    • News videos
    • News digest (email)
    • Press kit
  • Events
    • Commencement
    • View from the Top
    • Minner Lecture
    • Kuh Lecture Series
    • Homecoming
    • Cal Day
  • College directory
  • For staff & faculty
Berkeley Engineering

Berkeley Engineering

Educating leaders. Creating knowledge. Serving society.

  • About
    • Rankings
    • Facts & figures
    • Voices of Berkeley Engineering
    • Equity and inclusion
    • Leadership team
    • 150 years of women in engineering
    • Milestones
    • Facilities
    • Maps
  • Admissions
    • Undergraduate admissions
    • Graduate admissions
    • Pathways to college
    • Visit
    • Maps
    • Admissions events
  • Academics
    • Undergraduate programs
    • Majors and minors
    • Undergraduate Guide
    • Graduate programs
    • Innovation & entrepreneurship
    • Kresge Engineering Library
    • International programs
    • Executive education
  • Research & faculty
    • Centers & institutes
    • Undergrad research
    • Faculty
  • Students
    • Advising & counseling
    • Programs
    • Academic support
    • Student life
    • Undergraduate Guide
    • Degree requirements
    • Equity & inclusion
    • Forms & petitions
    • Resources
  • Connect
    • Alumni
    • Industry
    • Give
    • Stay in touch
Home > News

Devices & inventions

wearable biosensors in armband as hand makes gestures

Talk to the hand? New device can recognize gestures

12/21/20 — The armband, which combines wearable biosensors with artificial intelligence, could be used to control prosthetics or interact with electronic devices
Exploded view of N95 mask, and assembled prototype modeled by undergrad researcher Jason Duckering

Anti-COVID mask breaks the mold

12/10/20 LBL — Scientists from Berkeley Engineering and Berkeley Lab have designed a rechargeable N95 mask with a custom fit
Illustration of cellphone checking for coronavirus RNA

CRISPR-based COVID-19 test uses smartphone cameras

12/04/20 — New diagnostic test, with accurate results in under 30 minutes, developed by scientists at Berkeley (including bioengineer Daniel Fletcher) and Gladstone Institutes
Graphic of Lucira coronavirus test device and 4-step instructions

Home coronavirus test springs from Berkeley Engineering roots

11/18/20 — First FDA-approved, rapid test for home use was developed by Lucira Health, founded by bioengineering Ph.D. graduates Debkishore Mitra and John Waldeisen
A microscope image of the structures used to initiate the magnetization switching

Researchers break magnetic memory speed record

10/29/20 — Advance could lead to new generation of ultrafast computer chips that retain data even when there is no power
Grace O

Berkeley team creates respiratory devices from sleep apnea machines

07/07/20 — Resourceful and affordable, about 600 apparatuses from Grace O'Connell's lab head to Ecuador this month
Video of robot surgery training

Robot see, robot do, AI-style

06/17/20 Engadget — Berkeley Engineering researchers, in collaboration with an Intel team, have taught a surgical robot to suture by showing it surgical videos of actual doctors.
Michel Maharbiz delivering his TEDMED talk

Using neural dust to eavesdrop on our organs

06/11/20 — In this TEDMED talk, EECS professor Michel Maharbiz describes using extremely miniaturized implants to get a closer look at organs in real time
Royal Society building in London

Materials sciences professor Ramamoorthy Ramesh named to Royal Society

04/29/20 — Ramesh has created nanosized materials that can power small electrical devices with minimal amounts of energy
Rendering of Quantum CubeSat

Students’ shoebox-sized satellite gets green light for launch

04/29/20 — Team from campus aerospace club, led by EECS sophomore, gets NASA support for QubeSat launch next year
Ferroelectricity model

Researchers discover ferroelectricity at the atomic scale

04/22/20 — A team of researchers have managed to grow ultra-thin material on silicon that can power small electronic devices
Rendering of blower unit

Low-cost, readily deployable respirators could help frontline healthcare workers

04/15/20 — Engineers develop powered air-purifying respirators that can be rapidly manufactured using widely available components
Three poses of BRETT robot

Learning to learn

04/14/20 — Researchers are using deep reinforcement learning techniques to equip robots with cutting-edge artificial intelligence capabilities.
Liwei Lin testing wearable sensor actuator

In touch with reality

04/14/20 — A new flexible, wearable device that can sense motion and give haptic feedback has applications for AR/VR technologies.
Rendering of a sleep apnea device retrofitted to help COVID-19 patients

Turning sleep apnea machines into ventilators

04/02/20 — Converting CPAP and BiPAP machines safely could add tens of thousands to COVID-19 ventilator supply
ICU anaesthesia ventilator workstation in an emergency room

Controlling ventilators from a distance

04/02/20 — Professor Michel Maharbiz is working with medical device makers to allow hospital staff to remotely monitor and adjust patients' ventilators

Can tiny, invisible particles help stop the spread of nuclear weapons?

03/12/20 — Researchers are closer than ever to deploying technology that can help detect the illicit production of plutonium, a key fuel for nuclear bombs
Eko stethoscope and co-founder Tyler Crouch

Artificial intelligence gives stethoscopes a much-needed upgrade

03/03/20 — Alumni develop algorithms that will help predict possible heart failure
Illustration of layered plasmonic nano-antenna arrays

Researchers develop novel way to shrink light to detect ultra-tiny substances

02/20/20 — The research could lead to the development of ultra-sensitive devices that can quickly detect pathogens in human blood.
Blue robot with flowers in a vase.

AI-powered Berkeley robot among Popular Science’s ‘Best of What’s New’

12/03/19 — Pieter Abbeel, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, led a team of researchers to develop Blue, the Berkeley robot for Learning in Unstructured Environments.
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • …
  • Page 17
  • Next Page »
  • Contact
  • Give
  • Privacy
  • UC Berkeley
  • instagram
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • youtube
© 2021 UC Regents