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An illustration shows a ring of small purple particles, representing disease proteins, sitting on a surface. The ring is partially covered by a droplet of liquid containing enlarged cartoons of plasmonic particles.

Research

From COVID to cancer, new at-home test spots disease with startling accuracy

A new technology created by UC Berkeley engineers uses the "coffee-ring effect," paired with plasmonics and AI, for rapid diagnostics.

A white, headless robot body against a green background.

Research

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

An light blue illustration of a DNA double helix

Research

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

closeup of a peacock feather that resembles an eye

Berkeley Voices: How seeing a new color stretches the limits of human perception

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

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

Scientists trick the eye into seeing new color ‘olo’

Two Berkeley professors receive prestigious Guggenheim fellowships

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

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

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