AI & robotics

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Q&A: Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli on co-founding Cadence and Synopsys

09/20/23 — DIGITIMES Asia: Berkeley Engineering professor recounts establishing the world's two largest electronic design automation companies, shares innovative projects that he is pursuing

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

09/13/23 — 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

Can we talk to whales?

09/06/23 The New Yorker — The New Yorker: Berkeley engineer Shafi Goldwasser explores how artificial intelligence may allow us to speak to other species

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"

Collage of stormy sky raining down zeros and ones, a weather prediction model and a satellite dish.

‘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

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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