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UC Berkeley Undergraduates Win Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Posted on April 20, 2017

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

May 1 2017

Robotic irrigation coming to CA vineyards

Posted on March 23, 2017

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 […]

Ken Goldberg – The New Wave in Robot Grasping

Mar 13 2017

Why It’s So Hard For Robots To Get A Grip

Posted on January 13, 2017

Ken Goldberg, director of the People and Robots Initiative of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, heads up a research team working on robotic grasping abilities, […]

Robots and People Working Together to Save Water and Enhance Agriculture

Posted on December 14, 2016

A nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is helping University of California researchers refine collaborative robotic technology that could change […]

CITRIS announces recipients of the inaugural Athena Awards for Women in Technology

Posted on September 28, 2016

To recognize the accomplishments of technology leaders and organizations fostering interest in computer science for the next generation of women and girls, CITRIS and the […]

Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution

Posted on March 29, 2016

Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Ken Goldberg, director of CITRIS People and Robots, was quoted in a Rolling Stones article covering recent developments in artificial intelligence. Regarding […]

Microsoft HoloLens academic research grants recipients

Posted on November 12, 2015

Meet the award recipients of the first Microsoft HoloLens academic research grants Chosen from more than 500 qualified applications, three faculty members from the UC Berkeley Robotics […]

Dash Robotics Launches Kamigami Robots on Kickstarter

Posted on October 20, 2015

One of the first projects to come through the CITRIS Foundry — Dash Robotics — created a low-cost “origami” robot that runs fast on six […]

Five Questions for Dr. Kenneth Loh, New Director of CITRIS at UC Davis

Posted on August 19, 2015

Since his appointment in July 2015 as the new UC Davis campus director for CITRIS, Dr. Kenneth Loh has been actively recruiting students for CITRIS projects, promoting […]

Stop Laughing at those Clumsy Humanoid Robots

Posted on June 12, 2015

Ken Goldberg, director of the People and Robots initiative of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, was prominently featured in a Wired article on humanoid robots. […]

Bold Bets: Tomorrow’s Industrial Entrepreneurship

Posted on June 12, 2015

For the third event in the Bold Bets series, The Atlantic will travel to the Bay Area to explore innovations in manufacturing and production. Next-generation […]

UC Merced Professor Stefano Carpin Joins CPAR Executive Committee

Posted on May 29, 2015

UC Merced Professor Stefano Carpin will serve on the executive board of a new multidisciplinary research enterprise called the People and Robots Initiative, by the […]

Five innovative faculty named Bakar Fellows

Posted on May 29, 2015

Congratulations to each of the new Bakar Fellows at UC Berkeley, including CITRIS-affiliated faculty members Pieter Abbeel and Michael Lustig. As a pioneer in robot learning, perception […]

CITRIS launches “People and Robots” Initiative, updates three other research initiatives

Posted on April 22, 2015

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) today announces the launch of the CITRIS People and Robots Initiative, a major […]

Rashomon Project featured in New Scientist

Posted on July 3, 2013

The Rashomon Project is developing an open-source toolkit that can facilitate the rapid assembly and public review of “Video Timelines” where many video and photo perspectives are time-aligned and displayed simultaneously.