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Advances in generative AI and other areas could enable robots to assist human surgeons during certain tasks that require significant dexterity like suturing, experts said in a new Science Robotics paper published today. Under an “Augmented Dexterity” approach, a human surgeon would closely oversee the robot’s work and take over if needed.

A new type of absorbing material developed by chemists at the University of California, Berkeley, could help get the world to negative emissions. The porous material — a covalent organic framework (COF) — captures CO2 from ambient air without degradation by water or other contaminants, one of the limitations of existing DAC technologies.

Alan Jian hadn’t always envisioned a career in government. As a data science major at UC Berkeley, he saw himself following the same path many of his peers pursued: working for a major Silicon Valley company, where he’d be surrounded by cutting-edge technology. But Jian's experience in a human contexts and ethics of data class sparked a new curiosity about how his skills could be...

Recent polls show public trust in the integrity of U.S. elections is decreasing, largely among Republicans. But this doesn’t signal that our elections are getting less reliable, UC Berkeley scholars said. In fact, elections in the U.S. are more secure and the results are more accurate than 20 years ago, said David Wagner, a Berkeley professor of computer science.

Computer science is entering the clinic through a first of its kind graduate program from two of the Bay Area’s foremost academic institutions. The UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health (CPH) welcomes its second cohort of PhD students this fall. The program applies computing and AI advances to the vast amounts of high-quality data that are generated in medicine, research and public health...

UC Berkeley assistant professors Bronwyn Lucas and Preeya Khanna will each receive $1.5 million over multiple years from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to fund their work improving scientists’ understanding of disease causes and therapies to repair individuals’ motor functions.

Berkeley News: At UC Berkeley, researchers are reimagining how to support freedom of expression online while minimizing the potential for harm. By holding social media companies accountable, building tools to combat online hate speech, and uplifting the survivors of online abuse, they are working to create safer and more welcoming online spaces for everyone.

UC Berkeley College of Engineering: Imaging microscopic samples requires capturing multiple, sequential measurements, then using computational algorithms to reconstruct a single, high-resolution image. This process can work well when the sample is static, but if it’s moving — as is common with live, biological specimens — the final image may be blurry or distorted. Now, Berkeley researchers have developed a method to improve temporal resolution...

UC Berkeley experts received a $1.5 million grant from the California Education Learning Lab (Learning Lab) to launch a first-of-its-kind computing technology hub for the state’s public colleges and universities. The hub will provide access to students across the state to course materials built on the JupyterHub platform, a cloud-based, open-source system widely used in scientific and industrial workplaces. It will be staffed and run...

UC Berkeley’s undergraduate data science program retained its No. 1 spot in the 2025 U.S. News and World Report rankings released late Monday. The university also held its No. 2 ranking in computer science at the undergraduate level. It shared that spot with Carnegie Mellon University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Berkeley was also acknowledged in the rankings for its excellence in other undergraduate...