Next-generation technologies are disrupting traditional ideas of infrastructure, which will soon be laced with sensor networks, machine learning and artificial intelligence to optimize efficiency, resiliency and sustainability.
ABOVE: Costas Spanos, leading a project to develop super-smart buildings, bikes past the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. (Photo by Noah Berger)
At the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, students are experimenting with plant-based, more eco-friendly alternatives to meat.
Inspired by the galago's unique ability to store energy in its tendons to leap to great heights, researchers have designed a small robot that can spring off walls and perform multiple vertical jumps.
Nuclear engineering professor Kai Vetter has founded an organization called the Institute for Resilient Communities, designed to help authorities communicate scientific information following disasters.