Winners of 2024 CITRIS Aviation Prize reach great heights

What would it take to connect the University of California’s campuses in Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz with a safe and sustainable system of air taxis, equipped to ferry students, faculty, staff and cargo across Northern California? That’s the question posed by the 2023–24 CITRIS Aviation Prize, the student design competition organized by CITRIS Aviation, a…

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UC Berkeley Team Advances Food Systems Research in New $20M NSF Center

A new research center funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) will aim to improve U.S. food systems to address such issues as pandemic-driven food system security and safety; improving crop yield, quality and nutrition; decreasing energy…

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Swappable Flying Batteries Keep Drones Aloft Almost Forever

Battery power is a limiting factor for robots everywhere, but it’s particularly problematic for drones, which have to make an awkward tradeoff between the amount of battery they carry, the amount of other more useful stuff they carry, and how long they can spend in the air. Consumer drones seem to have settled around about a…

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ME Professor Mark Mueller Receives ABB Research Award 2017

Photo by: Giulia Marthaler ME Assistant Professor Mark Mueller has received the ABB Research Award 2017 for his doctoral thesis on drones. The award, in honor of Hubertus von Gruenberg, is given to outstanding postdocs whose research has specific real-world applications, potential for innovation, and benefits society and the environment. Professor Mueller’s award-winning research focuses…

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