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We transfer discoveries for the benefit of society.
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To pursue interdisciplinary research that solves challenges no lab, discipline or industry can solve alone.
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Mission Critical: How Humans and Robots Can Team up in Uncertain Environments
May 20, 2022
In the midst of a medical emergency or disaster response, how can humans and robots work together mo...

Using everyday WiFi to help robots see and navigate better indoors
May 20, 2022
UC San Diego engineers have developed a low cost, low power technology to help robots accurately map...

Multi-tasking wearable continuously monitors glucose, alcohol, and lactate
May 9, 2022
Imagine being able to measure your blood sugar levels, know if you’ve had too much to drink, a...

Breaking through to the brain
May 5, 2022
UC San Diego bioengineering Professor Ester Kwon, who leads the Nanoscale Bioengineering r...
Unveiling the genes linked to the synthesis of many complex Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs)
May 5, 2022
In a study in Nature Communications published on May 4, 2022 entitled "Elucidating Human Milk O...