COVID-19 may drive sustained research in robotics to address risks of infectious diseases. CITRIS People and Robots Director Ken Goldberg is one of multiple authors […]
Robotics
Open Problems for Robots in Surgery and Healthcare
Combating COVID-19—The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases
Jonathon Schofield
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Davis
Berkeley Robotics highlighted at TechCrunch event
Researchers and entrepreneurs in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics emphasized the social impact of the technologies at the day-long “TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics […]
New Ambidextrous Robot May Redefine The Warehouse
Research published in Science Robotics this week announced a new “ambidextrous” robot that could change the fundamentals of warehouse distribution. The robot, developed by researchers at the University of […]
Artificial Intelligence will diversify human thinking, not replace it
New blog post by CITRIS People and Robots director Ken Goldberg describes how artificial intelligence will help humans work together in new ways. Tata Communications: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is […]
Million Hands
Hand prosthetics have come a long way since Daniel Lim created a “super hand” in the CITRIS Invention Lab in 2015 for an eight-year-old with symbrachydactyly, thanks to CITRIS seed-funded projects led by Professors Alice Agogino and Grace McConnell and collaborators across campus and beyond.
Irrigation robots could help grow wine grapes in California
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 to monitor and adjust water emitters
How to interact with robots without embarrassing yourself
“All these robots suffer from the same challenge: they need to anticipate,” says CITRIS researcher Anca Dragan. Doctoral students working with CITRIS Sustainable Infrastructures director […]
Ken Goldberg wins award recognizing faculty research in the public interest
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 service award from Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ in April.
How flight simulation tech turns robots into surgeons
Borrowing techniques from flight simulation technology, CITRIS researchers have now developed an undulating platform to train surgical robots to operate on breathing, pulsing patients. Wired, March […]
Keeping robots friendly: Meet the woman teaching AI about human values
Forbes: “Computer scientist and robotics engineer Anca Dragan has a cool name, an impressive CV and an important job: ensuring that our interactions with robots and other artificially intelligent agents are positive ones,” says this profile of one of CITRIS’s most prominent A.I. researchers, working in the Center for Human-compatible A.I. at CITRIS.
Catherine Keske
Research Interests: Agricultural and resource economics and coupled natural and human systems research As an applied economist, the majority of Professor Keske’s work involves collaborations […]
Why AI won’t overtake the world, but is worth watching
CITRIS People and Robots Director Ken Goldberg and CITRIS researcher Pieter Abbeel forecast the future of artificial intelligence in this industry overview. “People who actually […]
Robots on the Edge: Intelligent Machines, Industry 4.0 and Fog Robotics
Building A.I. that can build A.I.
CITRIS researchers Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine discuss how computers can learn to invent new algorithms on their own through Deep Learning. Large tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook hope to use this technology to build advanced systems with artificial intelligence.
3D Orchards: UC Researcher Turns Farms Into Virtual Reality
3D Orchards: Virtual reality meets agriculture in the article below featuring CITRIS Researcher Dr. YangQuan Chen and the UC Merced MESA lab. Farmers are relying more and more […]
In the Future, Warehouse Robots Will Learn on Their Own
Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg, director of CITRIS People and Robots, describes how machine learning can accelerate the use of robots in manufacturing, which could drive […]
Ken Goldberg Robot Grasping Research featured in MIT Tech Review and NY Times
Robot Grasping: CITRIS researchers Ken Goldberg and Pieter Abbeel, using a deep-learning neural network, have developed a robot with “an exceptional knack for picking up […]
UC Berkeley Undergraduates Win Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
WheelSense: An Open-Source Smart Add-On System for Wheelchairs Tomás Vega and Corten Singer both describe themselves as being “passionate about assistive technology,” which is designed […]
SoRL 2017 – Symposium on Robot Learning
Robotic irrigation coming to CA vineyards
Ken Goldberg, director of the People and Robots initiative of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, explains robotic applications for crop irrigation. Researchers are developing a […]