Making the Human Body More Hospitable
The human body hates houseguests, from artificial hips to vascular stents. To help solve the problem, UC Berkeley bioengineers are developing a coating for prosthetics that not only convince the human body that the implant is "one of its own," but also send out a biological call to begin healing.
Lego Robot Passes Go, Collects Prize
Undergraduate Anthony Levandowski's childhood passion for playing
with Legos has finally paid off. The student led his classmates
to gold at the inaugural Java Technology Lego MindStorms Challenge
with a "charming" robot that sorts Monopoly money while tackling
one of industrial engineering's biggest problems.
Your Wish is the Tele-Actor's Command
A novel approach to Internet robotics developed at UC Berkeley melds
five million years of human evolution with a new approach to audience
participation to form the ultimate real-world avatar. Meet the Tele-Actor,
a "human robot."
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Gerald Stone/PATH photo
On
the Road to Smarter Highways
Drivers on Los Angeles freeways spend a combined total of 9,000
years stuck in traffic every year. Fortunately, research in UC
Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest
of Society (CITRIS) program could lead to a kinder, gentler commute.
Great moments of innovation from the annals of Berkeley Engineering history.
1977: Berkeley UNIX and the
birth of Open-Source Software
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