UC Berkeley Engineers Create World’s Smallest Wireless Flying Robot The bumblebee-inspired robot, less than a centimeter in diameter, can hover, change directions and even hit small targets.
No Robot Can Match a Squirrel’s Ability To Leap From Limb to Limb — Until Now Based on studies of leaping squirrels, UC Berkeley students design a robot that can stick a landing on a branch.
Pioneering a New Era for Cancer Prediction Using AI Yala's team is currently leading a randomized clinical trial to evaluate how its breast cancer prediction model Mirai can improve patient outcomes.
New Device Enhances Grasping for People With Spinal Cord Injuries Test subjects found that they could easily grasp objects anywhere they could reach their arm, without having to rotate their bodies.
Using AI, These Robots Learn Complicated Skills with Startling Accuracy UC Berkeley researchers devised a fast and precise way to teach robots tasks like assembling a motherboard or an IKEA drawer.
Professor Launches Company Centered Around “Agentic AI” Assistant professor Niloufar Salehi, along with her team, has launched Across AI, a startup pioneering agentic AI for complex enterprise workflows.
Michael I. Jordan Receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award Berkeley EECS professor receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award for their core contributions to the field of machine learning.
Jelani Nelson Considers Human Thought With Computer Science Tools Berkeley Computer Science Division chair has launched accessible coding programs and advocated for high quality STEM education in California.
Watch a Biologist Explain How Animals Move in 101 Seconds Learn how biologists like Victor Ortega Jiménez use high-speed cameras to record fascinating slow motion footage of animals in the wild.
UC Berkeley Engineer Homayoon Kazerooni Elected to the National Academy of Inventors Berkeley engineering professor Homayoon Kazerooni has been named a 2024 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
NASA-Funded Project Offers New Insights Into Fire Behavior in Space Testing in microgravity reveals materials can burn at lower-than-expected oxygen levels.
A World Without Plastic Pollution? A New Paper Shows It’s Possible Negotiators have the ability to nearly eliminate plastic pollution by 2050.