Pieter Abbeel

Two teams of UC Berkeley researchers have trained quadruped robots, also known as robot dogs, to learn to walk on their own in the real world in record time using reinforcement learning, or RL, algorithms.

Berkeley-based startup institute The House announced a new initiative via press release Wednesday that aims to support the translation of artificial intelligence, or AI, research into an industrially applicable form.

Robots may soon step out of research labs and into the real world, thanks to a team of UC Berkeley researchers.

On Wednesday NASA announced that UC Berkeley alumnus Warren “Woody” Hoburg will be one of a new class of twelve astronaut candidates.

President Barack Obama named a total of 106 recipients Thursday for the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, four of whom are campus-affiliated researchers.

Inspired by human learning, a team of UC Berkeley researchers have developed a technique that allows robots to perform tasks through trial and error without being given specific details about their surroundings.

Campus researchers will create a center devoted to developing medical robots that can complete repetitive surgical tasks, allowing human surgeons to focus on more complex operations.

Researchers at UC Berkeley and other universities are building “Robo Brain,” an online system where robots can access a single, global database collected from the Internet to learn how to perform human tasks.

Pandagrader, a project spearheaded by Professor Pieter Abeel, is a system where exams are uploaded via scanning to a login-based online system, enabling viewing and grading of exams on a personal computer.