UC Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering now offers a Master of Science degree in robotics, the first and only one of its kind in the University of California system.

Four robotics faculty members received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards this year.

Together with his students and collaborators, Prof. Pasqualetti has received the 2020 Roberto Tempo Best CDC Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society, and the 2020 IEEE Control Systems Letters Outstanding Paper Award.

The group is developing a robotic pressure chamber that can autonomously sample leaves and immediately test them on site to provide the freshest data.

Professor Wei Ren received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant on distributed multi-robot joint localization and tracking.

Amit Roy-Chowdhury, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering, is leading a team that has received a grant totaling almost $1 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or...

By adding this layer of “mechanical intelligence” onto the artificial decision-making algorithms that animate most robots, the researchers are building robots that are better able to navigate different environments, perform delicate tasks, or eventually be worn by people for therapeutic...