Using AI to get people out of their cars and into HOVs
06/10/24 — HumanLight traffic signal technology incentivizes ridesharing
AI & robotics
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
05/31/24 — MIT Technology Review: Researchers are using generative AI, other techniques to teach robots new skills — including tasks they could perform in homes
Ready to roll
05/31/24 — Advanced navigation for spherical robots like BB-8 may be possible thanks to new insights into holonomy.
Grand designs
05/31/24 — An innovative design method leverages AI and additive manufacturing to create better-performing materials.
Bridging the brain
05/31/24 — A new interdisciplinary class explores the relationship between art, AI and robotics.
Researchers design soft actuators that mimic ‘bone-in-flesh’ structure of human limbs
05/28/24 — Devices exhibit ultrafast performance, extreme impact resistance — and can be easily fabricated in under an hour
Five engineering professors among 2024 Spark Award winners
05/22/24 — Bakar Fellows Program: Recipients embody the spirit of innovation and collaboration that defines UC Berkeley’s entrepreneurial ecosystem
EECS professor Hany Farid and I School Ph.D. students featured on PBS Nova
04/17/24 — School of Information: The episode, “A.I. Revolution,” covers the dangers of deepfakes — and how easily they can be created
Francisca Vasconcelos chosen as Paul and Daisy Soros New American fellow
04/17/24 — CDSS: EECS doctoral student to receive up to $90,000 through merit-based program for immigrants, children of immigrants
How to keep AI from killing us all
04/09/24 — UC Berkeley researchers: Companies should not be allowed to create advanced AI systems until they can prove they are safe
How scientists are accelerating chemistry discoveries with automation
04/08/24 — Berkeley Lab: New statistical-modeling workflow, developed by MSE professor Kristin Persson’s group, may help advance drug discovery and synthetic chemistry
UC Berkeley summit tackles AI governance, trust, ethical tech
03/21/24 — School of Information: Computer scientists Stuart Russell and Deborah Raji discuss European Union AI Act
Watch this robot as it learns to stitch up wounds
03/05/24 — MIT Technology Review: Berkeley researchers' AI-trained surgical robot was able to sew six stitches on its own — and has lessons for robotics as a whole
EECS professor named Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow
03/04/24 — CDSS: Nika Haghtalab among cohort that will conduct ambitious artificial intelligence research to benefit society
Researchers explore the phenomenon of holonomy
02/13/24 — New insights may advance motion and path planning for spherical robots
Human-sized robot taught itself to walk and balance, then strolled Berkeley’s streets
12/19/23 — SFGATE: Berkeley researchers used billions of simulations and reinforcement learning to teach the robot how to move
Disinformation nation: What can we do to crack the code?
11/20/23 — Berkeley researchers “probe the corrosive effects of algorithms, machine learning and other exotic technologies” and offer possible solutions
Researchers develop design tool to optimize quantum optics circuits in silicon
11/13/23 — New machine learning-based optimization method for nonlinear and quantum optics may open the door to large-scale communication and quantum computing applications
How to use AI for discovery — without leading science astray
11/09/23 — Berkeley researchers present new statistical technique for safely using predictions obtained from machine learning models to test scientific hypotheses
Put into words
11/06/23 — An implantable, AI-powered device can translate brain signals into synthesized speech and facial expressions.