May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020 —
Roboticists at the University of California San Diego have developed an affordable, easy to use system to track the location of flexible surgical robots inside the human body. The system performs as well as current state of the art methods, but is much less expensive.
April 2, 2020
April 2, 2020 —
To better understand early signs of coronavirus and the virus' spread, physicians around the country and data scientists at UC San Diego are working together to use a wearable device to monitor more than 12,000 people, including thousands of healthcare workers. The effort is already underway at hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area and at the University of West Virginia.
March 26, 2020
March 26, 2020 —
Can robots be effective tools in combating the COVID-19 pandemic? A group of leaders in the field of robotics, including Henrik Christensen, director of UC San Diego’s Contextual Robotics Institute, say yes, and outline a number of examples in an editorial in the March 25 issue of Science Robotics. They say robots can be used for clinical care such as telemedicine and decontamination; logistics such as delivery and handling of contaminated waste; and reconnaissance such as monitoring compliance with voluntary quarantines.
November 14, 2019
November 14, 2019 —
If you’ve seen carts that look like they’re driving themselves on the road around Warren and Sixth College this quarter, you have not been imagining things. Two self-driving vehicles have been delivering mail to the two colleges since September.
November 14, 2019
November 14, 2019 —
From companies worth billions of dollars to startups employing a small number of people, UC San Diego engineering alumni are at the core of the robotics ecosystem here in San Diego County.
November 5, 2019
November 5, 2019 —
Hard-to-study mutations in the human genome, called short tandem repeats, known as STRs or microsatellites, are implicated in the expression of genes associated with complex traits including schizophrenia, inflammatory bowel disease and even height and intelligence.
October 22, 2019
October 22, 2019 —
A team of engineers and marine biologists built a better suction cup inspired by the mechanism that allows the clingfish to adhere to both smooth and rough surfaces, such as rocks in the area where the tide comes and goes.
October 17, 2019
October 17, 2019 —
From the world’s largest outdoor earthquake simulator to an international network of seismic stations, UC San Diego is a living laboratory for seismic safety. As an estimated 9.5 million people across the state are set to participate in the Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill today, UC San Diego researchers are doing their part to keep us safe and provide a better understanding of these natural hazards.
June 13, 2019
June 13, 2019 —
Could a computer pick up where Mozart left off? Or could a machine make videos that look like pieces by Picasso? Students enrolled in UC San Diego’s first-ever Machine Learning for the Arts course used methods rooted in engineering to try to answer these types of questions and make art in the process.
May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019 —
When New York and the Northeastern United States experienced a massive power blackout in August 2003, Nicholas Abi-Samra became the lead investigator trying to determine the disaster’s cause. He was then a senior technical director at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the not-for-profit think tank for the power industry.
