Company GenEdit, founded by Berkeley Ph.D.s Kunwoo Lee and Hyo Min Park, with Berkeley bioengineering professor Niren Murthy, was part of a study representing the first demonstration of behavior...
The CITRIS Invention Lab has launched a summer internship program for junior high and high school students. From mid-June to early August, nine students from California schools are spending two...
In honor of World Refugee Day, the CITRIS-seeded Digital Refuge project today launched an interactive website that maps the perilous ordeals of thousands of displaced people through their own...
The UC Berkeley College of Engineering has named Tsu-Jae King Liu its new dean, the first woman to hold that position and among only 60 women deans in the nation’s 368 engineering schools. Long a...
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On May 10, the White House convened 100 national leaders in industry, tech, government, and academia for a summit on the potential of artificial intelligence (AI). CITRIS director Costas Spanos,...
by Saemmool Lee At a CITRIS-co-sponsored event on May 11 that drew more than 1,100 people to Zellerbach Hall, TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics presented pioneers in the fields of robotics and AI...
At a showcase in April at the Banatao Auditorium, undergraduate and graduate students presented their work developing novel tech ideas, addressing issues from gait impairment in the elderly and...
Faced with shortages of water and workers, winemakers are working with CITRIS researchers at UC Merced and UC Berkeley on a robot-assisted precision irrigation delivery system that uses machines...
In its first annual student video competition, UCTV’s CITRIS-seeded “Sustainable California” channel awarded first place to a trilingual Berkeley graduate student team production about using UAVs...
In the CITRIS Tech Museum in Sutardja Dai Hall, a new exhibit is designed to encourage “womxn, femmes, and gender-nonconforming community members” to express and share their anger. “The Bank of...
Wired: “All these robots suffer from the same challenge: they need to anticipate,” says CITRIS researcher Anca Dragan. Doctoral students working with CITRIS Sustainable...
On April 25, CITRIS presented to a standing-room-only crowd in Banatao Auditorium a panel of successful bioengineering entrepreneurs, including CITRIS Foundry startup leaders and Y Combinator...
The open source, e-participation Collaborative Assessment and Feedback Engine platform (CAFE), developed by CITRIS People and Robots Director Ken Goldberg and team, was recognized with a public...
Sacramento Bee: In April, UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May (M.S.’88, Ph.D.’91 EECS) announced plans for a 25-acre technology and innovation district at the university’s medical center campus in...
Next Avenue/PBS: Asked at the CITRIS-co-hosted “Transforming Mobility” conference last week: How is it that Amazon can deliver toilet paper to a person in the Adirondacks overnight, but it takes...
AARP Bulletin: April 16, 2018 – Americans 65 and older are projected to number more than 98 million by 2060. “Technology can be a huge help in maintaining independence,” says CITRIS...
MIT News: April 16, 2018 – “This will change the availability of optics, and how the world can use optics, in ways beyond what we can predict right now,” says CEO Alex...
We are pleased to welcome Professor J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves as the new director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
UC Berkeley NewsCenter, April 4, 2018 – Graduate students working with CITRIS researchers Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine have made major advances in realistic computer animation, using deep...
