Robotics & AI

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Grace Gu selected as inaugural recipient of the LLNL Early Career UC Faculty Initiative

10/02/23 LLNL — LLNL: Assistant professor of mechanical engineering to receive $1M as part of LLNL, University of California partnership for AI-driven additive manufacturing research

Inioluwa Deborah Raji and Stuart Russell among TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI

09/13/23 TIME Magazine — TIME Magazine: Berkeley engineers grapple with the ethical and safety issues related to AI

Cruise autonomous taxi operating on a San Francisco street.

‘Robo-taxi takeover’ hits speed bumps

09/08/23 — Scientific American: Berkeley transportation engineer Steven Shladover says a lack of safety data available to the public is one reason the reality of self-driving cars doesn’t yet match the hype

Novel brain implant helps paralyzed woman speak using a digital avatar

08/23/23 — Berkeley engineers explain how advances in AI could help restore natural communication

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Researchers create open-source platform for Neural Radiance Field development

07/25/23 — Plug-and-play framework makes it easier to collaborate and develop interactive 3D scenes

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Stuart Russell: Generative AI tools are quickly ‘running out of text’ to train themselves on

07/14/23 Insider — Business Insider: UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences concerned that AI's strategy behind training large language models is "starting to hit a brick wall"

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‘Nowcasting’ model enables forecasting of extreme precipitation

07/12/23 — AI tool for analyzing short-term weather conditions may help save lives

As Big Tech invests in virtual reality, studies highlight user privacy risks

06/13/23 — CDSS: Berkeley engineers find that AR and VR users can be identified using just minutes of their head and hand movements

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Robotic pup tested in East Bay could be the future of infrastructure inspection

06/12/23 — ABC7 News: Berkeley civil engineers send in Spot to inspect 100-year-old, 7,000-foot-long tunnel

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Ken Goldberg: Let’s embrace the creative possibilities of AI

06/09/23 — Berkeley Blog: Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research shares his view that engaging with AI’s unique form of creativity could lead to unexpected new discoveries

Working like a dog

05/17/23 — Two research teams have developed cutting-edge approaches that shorten training times for quadruped robots.

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UC Berkeley joins NSF-backed AI institute for cybersecurity

05/08/23 — Five faculty members to develop 'foundational technologies in learning and reasoning'

Still image of EECS professor Sergey Levine discussing how advances in offline reinforcement learning can enable machine learning systems to learn to make more optimal decisions from data.

A path to resourceful autonomous agents

05/01/23 — In latest AI lecture, EECS professor Sergey Levine discusses how advances in offline reinforcement learning can enable machine learning systems to learn to make more optimal decisions from data

ChatGPT architect, Berkeley alum John Schulman on his journey with AI

04/20/23 — Schulman talks about why he chose Berkeley for graduate school, the allure of towel-folding robots, and what he sees for the future of artificial general intelligence

When will cars be fully self-driving?

04/18/23 The Wall Street Journal — Wall Street Journal: UC Berkeley EECS professor Alexandre Bayen and other experts weigh in on what the future holds for autonomous vehicles

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New Neurotech Collider Lab to harness interdisciplinary synergy for breakthrough innovations

04/17/23 BBH — BBH: The Bakar BioEnginuity Hub and Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology are partnering to create a new interdisciplinary space for world-changing breakthroughs in neurotech

Deep RL at scale: Fleet of robots sorts waste in office buildings

04/13/23 — Researchers show how deep reinforcement learning enables robots to improve continually in the real world, while doing an actual job

Berkeley Engineering professors Dawn Song, Pieter Abbeel and Michael Jordan with the House Fund

Amid boom in AI accelerators, House Fund swings open its doors

04/10/23 — Berkeley-centric outfit says OpenAI, Microsoft and Databricks are offering participating startups free and early access to tech

Stuart Russell calls for new approach for AI, a ‘civilization-ending’ technology

04/07/23 CDSS — CDSS: UC Berkeley computer science professor and leading AI expert is urging companies to rethink how they’re building AI and calling on countries to regulate it to ensure it furthers human interests

Image of Jitendra Malik, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, presenting on the sensorimotor road to artificial intelligence at the 110th annual Martin Meyerson Faculty Research Lectures.

Jitendra Malik presents on the sensorimotor road to artificial intelligence

03/24/23 — Berkeley Talks transcript: The Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences examines the evolution of artificial intelligence, part of the Martin Meyerson Faculty Research Lectures