September 9, 2021
Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego have released a new framework called OpenRooms. Available to the public, this dataset and tools will help users manipulate objects, materials, lighting and other properties in indoor 3D scenes to advance augmented reality and robotics.
October 27, 2016
…to study methods for manipulating microbiomes for the benefit of human health, and the launch of the Contextual Robotics Institute to develop safe, useful and human-friendly robotics systems to advance how people live. Private support ensures UC San Diego’s position as an academic and research powerhouse Foundations provided the largest…
April 12, 2017
Three faculty members of the University of California San Diego and its chancellor have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s most esteemed honorary societies and independent policy research centers.
October 22, 2015
…use of the station’s robotic arm, Extravehicular Activity exercises (space walks) and regular flights on a T-38 jet, among other skills. “Everyone on the team has to know how to do everything—pilots learn about scientific procedures and scientists are taught to be pilots,” Rubins explained. “The training helps us to…
May 31, 2018
…a group, enhancing and manipulating electromagnetic energy and concentrating optical energy beyond the diffraction limit of light. But much of this energy in common materials is quickly lost, or dissipated, as heat. And, while plasmons have found commercial applications in chemical sensors (e.g., common drug-store pregnancy tests), they have not…
November 15, 2018
…animals, and then physically manipulate the corresponding wave shape to focus on the narrow frequency band of one specific animal’s sounds. “Most of us think of the ocean as a quiet, peaceful place, but it actually really isn’t,” said Hazel Leung, a fourth year cognitive science student and Summer EnVision…
June 28, 2017
UC San Diego and Bermuda’s Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources have officially launched a first-of-its-kind effort to scan underwater shipwrecks and coral reefs in 3D and at an unprecedented level of detail.
May 1, 2024
The Design and Innovation Building is a modern 74,000-square-foot space that integrates rigorous education and industry collaboration across its four distinct floors, each uniquely designed and positioned to propel thinkers, dreamers and doers upward as they progress through each level.
April 11, 2013
…and Building and Guiding Robots. The themes are organized in series connected to specific skills, such as mobile computing, bringing computers to life and website design, development and deployment. “I like to be able to tell the computer to do something and being able to see it happening,” Grace said.…
March 2, 2017
…printed heart tissue. Tiny robots that could deliver drugs. Stretchable and wearable electronics. These are just a few ways that nanoengineers at UC San Diego are making a big splash—at the nanoscale level. On Friday, graduate students, faculty and representatives from local industry, including Illumina, General Atomics, Becton Dickinson and…
