Posts by Ainsley Cunningham
AI-enhanced robot from Goldberg’s Automation Lab can collect laundry
Out of the laboratory of UC Berkeley professor Ken Goldberg, director of the CITRIS People and Robots legacy initiative: Researchers have come a couple steps closer to building a robot…
Read MoreHow can we defang disinformation? CITRIS PIs offer solutions
The skyrocketing popularity of social media and advancement of consumer technology in recent years has come with a major pitfall: the equally unprecedented spread of misinformation. Digital fabrication is only…
Read MoreCITRIS Health releases ACTIVATE community engagement guide
CITRIS Health and the UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities, in partnership with Ampla Health and an agricultural grower, have released the ACTIVATE Community Engagement Implementation Guide, a how-to…
Read MoreCITRIS and CLTC partner to bring cybersecurity internships to UC students
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute have partnered with the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity to integrate cybersecurity into the CITRIS Workforce Innovation Program. The collaboration will establish a cybersecurity…
Read MoreCITRIS-supported UC Santa Cruz student team wins at sustainability decathlon
A UC Santa Cruz student team supported by a 2022 campus seed award — now known as an Interdisciplinary Innovation Program, or I2P award — scored a series of accolades…
Read MoreCrittenden sees opportunities for higher ed in White House’s new Executive Order on AI
Camille Crittenden, executive director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and a member of the University of California Presidential Working Group on Artificial Intelligence, has penned an op-ed on the…
Read MoreFall Research Exchange series tackled AI framing, learning models and safety
In fall 2023, the CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, alongside the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science and Society (CDSS) and the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Laboratory, hosted…
Read MoreAs heard on KQED: EcoBlock seeks neighborhood-wide electrification
As profiled in a recent episode of KQED Public Radio’s housing and climate change podcast, the Oakland EcoBlock, a project led by researchers affiliated with the California Institute for Energy…
Read MoreCITRIS Foundry opens applications for spring 2024 cohort
Applications are now open for the spring 2024 cohort of the CITRIS Foundry startup incubator. The CITRIS Foundry helps University of California entrepreneurs develop innovative ideas into startups ready to seek…
Read MoreFarid addresses rise of deepfakes in Nature
In a recent feature story in the scientific journal Nature, CITRIS PI and UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid commented on the proliferation — and danger — of deepfakes: falsified images…
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