Artificial intelligence archive

Cassie Cal makes campus moves on hovershoes

June 12, 2019

A new video by the Hybrid Robotics Group shows bipedal robot Cassie Cal riding in hovershoes down a few stairs, on uneven outdoor terrain, up and down steep inclines and leaning into a turn to navigate corners.

Shifting gears

May 1, 2019

The integration of self-driving vehicles requires policy decisions that consider how travel behavior will shift with the introduction of new mobility choices.

Squishy robots can drop from a helicopter and land safely

April 24, 2019

New soccer-ball-shaped robots, created by engineers at Berkeley and Squishy Robotics, can fall hundreds of feet and be no worse for wear, or shape-shift in order to crawl from one point to another.

A robot has figured out how to use tools

April 15, 2019

A machine built by UC Berkeley researchers drew on experimentation, data and observation of humans to learn how simple implements could help it achieve a task.

Meet Blue, the low-cost, human-friendly AI robot

April 9, 2019

Blue uses advances in artificial intelligence and deep reinforcement learning to master intricate human tasks, while remaining affordable and safe enough that every AI researcher – and eventually every home – could have one.

Jitendra Malik receives 2019 IEEE’s Computer Pioneer Award

April 2, 2019

Jitendra Malik, Arthur J. Chick Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of California at Berkeley, has been named to receive the IEEE Computer Society’s 2019 Computer Pioneer Award.

How malevolent machine learning could derail AI

March 26, 2019

Berkeley Engineering AI security expert Dawn Song warns that “adversarial machine learning” could be used to reverse-engineer systems – including those used in defense.

‘Ambidextrous’ robots could dramatically speed e-commerce

January 16, 2019

In a new paper, Berkeley engineers build on 35 years of research with new algorithms that compute robust robot pick points, enabling robot grasping of a diverse range of products without training.

Clever clumsiness: Self-taught walking robot

January 9, 2019

Researchers from the Berkeley AI Research Lab and Google Brain have taught a robot to teach itself how to walk, through trial and error, in just two hours; the results “are as awkward as they are magical.”

Artificial intelligence opens health data privacy to attack

December 21, 2018

Current privacy laws and regulations are nowhere near sufficient to keep an individual’s health data private in the face of advances in artificial intelligence, according to a new study from IEOR professor Anil Aswani and his team.

These robots are learning the old-fashioned way—by playing

December 19, 2018

Unlike most robots, the ones in the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab haven’t been programmed to perform a specific task. Instead, they’ve been programmed to learn new stuff by observation or through physical trial and error.

Watch just a few self-driving cars stop traffic jams

November 19, 2018

Anyone can start a traffic jam – just by tapping the brakes. Now, scientists at Berkeley have shown that a few self-driving cars can prevent such jams – and in some cases double the average speed of surrounding vehicles.

Fighting fake news

November 14, 2018

Berkeley students have created SurfSafe, a machine learning tool that identifies when an online photo has been doctored.

Microrobots fly, walk and jump into the future

November 14, 2018

Researchers led by Kris Pister are overcoming significant technical hurdles to push the boundaries of robotic miniaturization.

Turning cars into robot traffic managers

October 29, 2018

Berkeley transportation researchers are addressing the emerging era of smart vehicles with a project that uses machine learning to manage traffic where autonomous, semi-autonomous and manned vehicles share the road. They presented their project, called Flow, at the Conference on Robotic Learning.