February 5, 2019
An engineering-surgery team at UC San Diego is working to extend the reach of surgeons by allowing them to operate remotely on patients located across a city, country, or even the globe. They are developing predictive augmented reality systems that could help make telesurgery a reality.
October 29, 2015
…object from the soft robotic gripper. UC San Diego Launches Robotics Institute The Jacobs School of Engineering and Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, San Diego have launched the Contextual Robotics Institute to develop safe and useful robotics systems. These robotics systems will function in the real…
November 14, 2013
The biggest outdoor shake table in the world and a robot designed to move along utility lines have received Best of What’s New awards from Popular Science, the world’s largest science and technology magazine. The two projects are featured in the magazine’s December issue, now on newsstands.
October 10, 2022
From robots inspired by animals and even amoeba, to better algorithms for self-driving cars and robotic surgery, researchers at the University of California San Diego will be presenting a wide range of papers at IROS 2022, which returns in a hybrid format Oct. 23 to 27, 2022.
October 6, 2016
…movements replaced a joystick; robots built and programed to follow a line; pinball machines constructed from scratch—without plans; and more. The activities were designed to spotlight new hands-on, experiential engineering classes offered in the department in partnership with EnVision Maker Studio. It’s all part of an initiative to ensure that…
August 6, 2024
Computer science Ph.D. student Naba Rizvi investigates the stereotypes about neurodiversity perpetuated by computer science research in a new study.
September 30, 2014
…Diego will host a robotics forum on October 10, 2014. The eight headlining speakers are world leaders in robotics disciplines that are relevant for the coming era of ubiquitous consumer robotics. Medicine, agriculture, environmental monitoring and disaster response are some of the areas of modern society that ubiquitous consumer robotics…
June 19, 2014
…be the role of robotics in the workplace? How can startups in robotics become mass-market success stories? And what will the robotics industry look like in five, or even 50 years? Those are some of the topics up for discussion June 23 when academic, government and industry participants from the…
November 14, 2019
…Alumni Power San Diego Robotics Ecosystem Local companies, alumni took part in the San Diego Robotics Forum on campus 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…
April 6, 2017
…right here including: A robot selfie anyone? Henrik Christensen, founding director of UC San Diego’s Contextual Robotics Institute and one of the most influential robotics researchers in the world, was at the event in collaboration with Fetch Robotics, which provides reliable and safe autonomous mobile robots for commercial applications. Alums…
