AI & robotics

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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

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CITRIS Foundry alumni innovate for a more sustainable world

06/01/23 — CITRIS: Startups founded by Berkeley engineers work to combat climate change, improve energy efficiency and develop more sustainable solutions

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'

Stuart Russell receives ACM’s AAAI Allen Newell Award

05/04/23 — EECS professor is recognized for fundamental achievements in AI

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

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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

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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

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What is ChatGPT’s future in higher education?

03/21/23 — Berkeley experts in artificial intelligence are studying how ChatGPT and similar tools will transform everything from admissions screening and research to writing college essays

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Berkeley engineers develop synthetic polymers that mimic the body’s natural proteins

03/20/23 — Alternative polymers work as well as real proteins and are easier to synthesize, a possible game-changer for biomedical applications

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AI lectures at Berkeley to explore possibilities, implications of ChatGPT

03/10/23 — Artificial intelligence experts from Berkeley and beyond will explore the ramifications of ChatGPT on science and society in a spring lecture series

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Evolution on fast forward: Grace Gu engineers AI-optimized, bioinspired materials

02/13/23 — CITRIS: Assistant professor of mechanical engineering takes inspiration from nature and uses machine learning to create more efficient materials

Energized for real-world impact

01/25/23 — Founded by Berkeley Engineering alumni, Gridware uses sensors to tackle the threat of wildfires

ME Ph.D. student takes the road less traveled to UC Berkeley

01/10/23 — Alexander Alvara pushes past life's obstacles and sets his sights on new frontiers in engineering