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Stretch robot presents a rose in its gripper.

Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?

05/31/24 — MIT Technology Review: Researchers are using generative AI, other techniques to teach robots new skills — including tasks they could perform in homes
Recycling symbol using circuitboards shaped like arrows

Going big with nano

05/31/24 — Scientists have devised a way to grow nanomaterials that are recyclable and large enough for industrial applications.
Impressionistic illustration in cool blues and greys

Cool it down

05/31/24 — How groundbreaking freezing technologies can protect food, organs — and even the planet
Arpad Horvath, Ravi Prasher and Ion Stoica

Three professors elected to NAE

05/31/24 — Arpad Horvath, Ravi Prasher and Ion Stoica — as well as nine Berkeley Engineering alums — were inducted by the organization.

Support Berkeley Engineering

05/31/24 — Create your legacy at Berkeley today.
Hands wearing blue gloves hold a tongue-controlled MouthPad^ touchpad.

A new paradigm

05/31/24 — Augmental, a company co-founded by alum Corten Singer, has developed a unique tongue-controlled touchpad.
Artist

New Berkeley Space Center

05/31/24 — The Moffett Field site will foster collaboration between NASA scientists and university researchers and students.
Oliver O’Reilly, Theresa Honein, Jessica "Psy" DeLacy and a replica BB-8 robot.

Ready to roll

05/31/24 — Advanced navigation for spherical robots like BB-8 may be possible thanks to new insights into holonomy.

Farewell

05/31/24 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Colorized lightning bolt in night sky

Putting on the heat

05/31/24 — Viruses can generate electricity when exposed to heat, which may lead to next-gen biosensors and diagnostic tools.
Photo montage of flying bats

So to speak

05/31/24 — Researchers have identified parallels between bats and humans in the parts of the brain related to vocalizations.
Pyramid-textured sound insulation lit by colored lights

Grand designs

05/31/24 — An innovative design method leverages AI and additive manufacturing to create better-performing materials.
EECS professor Boubacar Kanté in his Cory Hall laser lab

Light science

05/31/24 — Advanced laser technologies may be key to applications ranging from clean energy to a quantum internet.
Dancer, roboticist and mechanical engineer Catie Cuan flails her arms, mimicking the movements of a UR5e robot arm, in the performance piece "Breathless."

Bridging the brain

05/31/24 — A new interdisciplinary class explores the relationship between art, AI and robotics.
Student driving electric race car

All charged up

05/31/24 — With your gift to Berkeley Engineering, you can fuel innovation and change.
Bright object with fiery trail approaching curve of Earth in image from space

Q+A on solar sails

05/31/24 — The BLISS project aims to create a fleet of miniaturized, autonomous spacecraft for exploring asteroids and comets.

New & noteworthy

05/31/24 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.
Nobel-prize winning professor Jennifer Doudna meets with Society of Women Engineers students before the Kuh Distinguished Lecture

Building on strength

05/31/24 — The Light the Way campaign raised $900 million for Berkeley Engineering in support of research programs, faculty and students.
A collage of photos shows scientists working in different types of lab environments.

Berkeley’s ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship combats climate change

05/30/24 — UC Berkeley faculty are fast-tracking the development of new and creative climate solutions
The bioinspired soft actuator can change shape under different external magnetic fields. Recorded (top row) and computed (bottom row) deformation of the actuator for contraction during four representative stages.

Researchers design soft actuators that mimic ‘bone-in-flesh’ structure of human limbs

05/28/24 — Devices exhibit ultrafast performance, extreme impact resistance — and can be easily fabricated in under an hour
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