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Professor Lining Yao with models created in the Morphing Matter Lab.
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Inspired by nature, this engineering professor’s designs fold, move and morph

From self-folding chairs to self-planting seeds, UC Berkeley’s Morphing Matter Lab is transforming what's possible in engineering design with their biomimetic materials.

A white, headless robot body against a green background.

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Berkeley engineers develop customizable, 3D-printed robot for tech newbies

Crowds of students are gathered in a sunny atrium in UC Berkeley's Grimes Engineering Center.

Campus & community

Behind the design of Berkeley’s new Grimes Engineering Center

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Research

UC Berkeley scientists are teaching computers to speak the language of life

Maria Paz Gutierrez standing next to a structure that looks like corrugated cardboard.

UC Berkeley professor showcases flood-resilient architecture at international exhibition

A graphic illustration of the brain inside a transparent head

New MRI method offers deeper insight into brain physiology

closeup of a peacock feather that resembles an eye
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Berkeley Voices: How seeing a new color stretches the limits of human perception

Nine students stand outside on the UC Berkeley campus, with the campanile visible in the background.

This university alliance is training students to strengthen tribal food, energy and water systems

Anastasios Angelopoulos (L) and Wei-Lin Chiang, founders of Chatbot Arena.

As companies pour billions into AI, a ranking system by UC Berkeley students has all eyes on it

Water pours from an outdoor faucet into a cupped hand.

Study finds stored drinking water can spread harmful bacteria

Ann Johnson sits in her wheelchair with a cord plugged into a neuroprosthesis implant while she participates in a clinical trial helping to restore her ability to speak with a brain-computer interface
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Berkeley Voices: A stroke left her ‘locked in.’ With the help of AI, she heard her voice again.

Artificial leaf uses sunlight to capture carbon and produce valuable chemicals

A profile of a brightly colored peacock head against a red and purple background.

Scientists trick the eye into seeing new color ‘olo’

A person bends over to tie their running shoe, with a water bottle in the foreground.

New wearable sweat sensor can track your hydration status

A new electric train at the Caltrain San Francisco station.

Electric trains are quieter, more reliable than diesel. New study finds they’re healthier, too.

Closeup of gloved hands connecting a brain-computer-interface to the back of research participant's head.

Streaming brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech

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