The recipients will receive up to $40,000 to pursue multidisciplinary projects related to climate resilience.
Robotics
AI Policy Hub announces its inaugural cohort
Launched in spring 2022, the UC Berkeley AI Policy Hub has welcomed its first cohort of graduate student researchers.
Farid talks rise of disinformation, AI in NPR, Washington Post
CITRIS researcher Hany Farid discussed the risks of disinformation that grow with the advent of multimedia manipulated by artificial intelligence.
New Sun Road partners with PG&E on remote microgrids
PG&E will be using New Sun Road technology to establish a set of remote microgrids in wildfire-prone locations in California.
CITRIS Seed Funding offers up to $60K for multicampus research for social good
Investigators from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Davis Health, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz are invited to submit proposals for 2022 CITRIS Seed Awards.
Goldberg’s AUTOLab reports significant advance in robotic surgery
As far as the researchers are aware, this is the first instance of a robot outperforming a human in a surgery-related training task.
CITRIS PIs receive $5.7M to advance cyber-physical systems research
UC Santa Cruz researcher Ricardo Sanfelice will lead the project, and UC Berkeley’s Murat Arcak will serve as a co-investigator.
Pieter Abbeel receives ACM Prize in Computing
The CITRIS PI and UC Berkeley professor been honored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his work on robot learning.
CITRIS at UC Merced outreach team teaches kids to fly drones
“Drones and robots are a gateway for young people to explore STEM,” said Leigh Bernacchi, program director of CITRIS at UC Merced.
DREAMS/CPAR Seminar – John Baras
Abbeel addresses AI advancements
CITRIS PI Pieter Abbeel sees robots becoming an integral part of our lives in the next five years.
With CITRIS at UC Merced’s NexTech Robotics, building is believing
NexTech, a hands-on outreach program run by students at UC Merced, uses robotics to teach middle school students STEM concepts.
Goldberg uses new AI technique to help robots move in three dimensions
As Ken Goldberg, director of CITRIS People and Robots, tells Wired, Neural Radiance Fields are “ultra-hot,” with applications in entertainment, architecture and, of course, robotics.
CITRIS Research Exchange – CITRIS Aviation Prize Winners
DREAMS/CPAR Seminar – Karen Liu
DREAMS/CPAR Seminar – Magnus Egerstedt
DREAMS/CPAR Seminar – Satrajit Chatterjee
DREAMS/CPAR Seminar – Henny Admoni
DREAMS/CPAR Seminar – Linda Pouliot
DREAMS/CPAR Seminar – Daniel Aukes
Zhaodan Kong
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Davis
Grace Gu
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Stephen Robinson
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Center for Spaceflight Research, UC Davis
The celebration continues: CITRIS highlights progress in 20th anniversary year
To honor two decades of IT solutions for the public good, CITRIS reaffirms a commitment to empowering University of California students, accelerating deep tech entrepreneurship, diversifying the STEM workforce, and leading the charge in climate and aviation research with interdisciplinary collaboration.