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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

Research

Berkeley Voices: A stroke left her ‘locked in.’ With the help of AI, she heard her voice again.

UC Berkeley researchers explain how a brain-computer interface restored Ann Johnson’s ability to speak after 18 years.

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Mind & body

Scientists trick the eye into seeing new color ‘olo’

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Awards

Two Berkeley professors receive prestigious Guggenheim fellowships

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

Research

New wearable sweat sensor can track your hydration status

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

A photo of a small, white, propeller-shaped object that is held between the tips of two fingers. The object is smaller than the width of a fingernail.

UC Berkeley engineers create world’s smallest wireless flying robot

Ashmita Kumar holds a prize from startup competition at UC Berkeley.

With AI and an iPhone, UC Berkeley student’s startup aims to detect stroke signs and save lives

3 gold circles against a blue background, with leaping squirrels in two and a leaping robot in the middle

No robot can match a squirrel’s ability to leap from limb to limb — until now

A microscope image shows a collection of grey spheres

Researchers create quantum sensors by mixing diamond dust with water

A portrait of Michael I. Jordan in his office.

Michael I. Jordan receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award for advances in machine learning

A person is pictured holding their arm above a table. A device is strapped to the back of the person's wrist and hand, and the device is grasping a yellow tennis ball.

New device helps people with spinal cord injuries grasp large, heavy objects

a black-and-silver robotic arm with a black whip attached has just struck a tower of Jenga blocks. One of the blocks is partially dislodged and about to fall out from the tower.

Using AI, these robots learn complicated skills with startling accuracy

A chameleon flashing a bright array of rainbow and pastel colors sits on a tree branch.

New electromagnetic material draws inspiration from the color-shifting chameleon

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UC Berkeley research scientist breaks down the TikTok ban

A microscope image of a 3D-printed antenna, which has tree-like crystalline branches emerging from a central trunk.

Engineers 3D print tiny, intricate antennas

A headshot of Homayoon Kazerooni

UC Berkeley engineer Homayoon Kazerooni elected to the National Academy of Inventors

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