Artificial intelligence archive

High school students mark end of ROAR Academy with celebratory race

August 17, 2021

Parts of the UC Berkeley campus were converted into a racecourse for high school students on Saturday (Aug. 14) as part of a Robot Open Autonomous Racing (ROAR) competition. The event capped the summer ROAR Academy in which dozens of students worked with autonomous driving algorithms and tested them in Python-based environments. The ROAR competition […]

New AI strategy enables robots to rapidly adapt to real-world environments

July 9, 2021

Rapid motor adaptation system outperformed peers in navigating unfamiliar terrain

The language of probabilities

May 13, 2021

Professor Dan Klein and his Berkeley Natural Language Processing Group helped a computer win the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament

The robot surgeon will see you now

May 3, 2021

Real scalpels, artificial intelligence — what could go wrong? That’s what the researchers and doctors in Ken Goldberg’s lab aim to find out.

Smooth operator

April 26, 2021

A research team has developed AI software that allows robotic arms to quickly grasp and move objects in a steady motion.

Using AI to eliminate traffic jams

March 13, 2021

ITS Director Alex Bayen explains how autonomous vehicles can help traffic flow more smoothly.

Talk to the hand? New device can recognize gestures

December 21, 2020

The armband, which combines wearable biosensors with artificial intelligence, could be used to control prosthetics or interact with electronic devices

Ambidextrous wins ‘Good Robot’ award for overall excellence

December 15, 2020

Berkeley-founded startup honored for its versatile e-commerce robots with an AI-enhanced operating system

UC Berkeley-led team receives $8.4M for AI-based approaches to cyber-physical systems

December 10, 2020

Project proposes a novel approach that blends AI and machine learning with guidance from human and computational oracles

Deep learning helps robots grasp and move objects with ease

November 18, 2020

Combining neural networks with motion planning software gives robots the speed and skill to assist in warehouse environments

UC Berkeley team advances food systems in new $20M research center

August 26, 2020

Campus expertise in simulation technologies will play a key role in the new AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems

Berkeley leads $10M program to probe foundations of deep learning

August 25, 2020

EECS professors to head five-year, multi-institution research project funded by NSF, Simons Foundation

Robot see, robot do, AI-style

June 17, 2020

Berkeley Engineering researchers, in collaboration with an Intel team, have taught a surgical robot to suture by showing it surgical videos of actual doctors.