ROBOTS IN THE REAL WORLD
WORKING WITH HUMANS
Our research teams are working to solve today’s pressing challenges in key areas including healthcare and autonomous vehicles.
Long term, we aim to develop robots that serve society in real time, in the real world. These robotic systems will adapt, evolve and create their own solutions based on the people and situations – the context – they encounter. And they’ll need to be secure.
To deliver, we are tackling fundamental research bottlenecks that will open up new capabilities for robots. Autonomous operation in many different environments is just one example.
Our plans require new approaches to research. New paradigms. We’ve aligned world-class expertise in hardware, software, cognitive science, design, machine learning, materials, security, and more, to make it happen.
Join us.
Contextual Robotics Institute 2019 Forum
The 2019 Forum will convene San Diego’s robotics community to highlight the region’s breadth of expertise in autonomy, artificial intelligence, service robots and drones. Speakers from academia and industry will meet to share the latest advances in the field of robotics, and to develop a vision for the San Diego region as the national hub of robotics innovation.
Learn more and register today.
Robotics News
July 15, 2019
Get up and go bots getting closer, study says
Robotics researchers at the University of California San Diego have for the first time used a commercial 3D printer to embed complex sensors inside robotic limbs and grippers. But they found that materials commercially available for 3D printing still need to be improved before the robots can be fully functional. Full Story
May 13, 2019
ICRA 2019 preview: bots, drones and neural nets
From ways to improve long-distance surgery techniques to better ways to get robots to work with humans in manufacturing settings and to a testing platform for UAVs, engineers at the University of California San Diego will make strong showing at the 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation May 20 to 24 in Montreal, Canada. Full Story
Seminars
(All Seminars)
Location: Atkinson Hall Auditorium
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
People-First Systems Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities in Smart Cities
Jeff Lorbeck - Qualcomm
Handling Scale (System and Developer) and Reliability in Large and Critical Systems
Sagnik Nandy - Google
An Integrated Medium Earth Orbit - Low Earth Orbit Navigation, Communication and Authentication System of Systems
David Whelan - UC San Diego
The Cost of Taking Shortcuts
David Harris - Cubic Transporation Systems
Scaling the Third Dimension in Silicon Integration
Srinivas Chennupaty - Intel
Applying a Decision Theoretic Framework for Evaluating System Trade-Offs
Nirmal Velayudhan - ViaSat
Systems Engineering the World's Most Energetic Laser
Robert Plummer - LLNL
The Criticality of Systems Engineering to Autonomous Air Vehicle Development
Ariele Sparks - Northrop Grumman