Toyota delivers plug-in vehicles to UCI, Berkeley

Toyota presented prototype plug-in hybrid electric vehicles today to UC Irvine’s Advanced Power and Energy Program and UC Berkeley’s Institute…

Prototype Toyota hybrid to be tested at UC Irvine

A new plug-in electric hybrid Toyota is headed to the UC Irvine campus as part of a $3 million research…

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UCI Podcast: Solving climate change with clean hydrogen fuel

UCI and Orange County are at the forefront of the clean hydrogen revolution

A person with a visual disability using Aira to access visual displays in an airport.

Tech for people with visual disabilities

UCI researchers collaborate with Toyota to provide Aira, a visual interpreter service, to the local community during the pandemic

A study working with the Toyota Human Support Robot known as CARL SR.

Robots to the rescue

Socially assistive devices can help people cope in times of crisis

Thomas Milner, the new director of UCI’s Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic

Inventive medicine

Optics innovator Thomas Milner is back at UCI as director of the Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic

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UCI team initiates effort to build ‘bridge’ ventilators

Quick-to-produce devices could help alleviate hospital shortages during COVID-19 crisis

Building a better bot

An interdisciplinary UCI team is improving assistive robotic technology for homebound children, limited-mobility adults

Connecting the Disconnected

In studying the effectiveness of telepresence robots in classrooms, a postdoctoral researcher who was homebound herself as a child finds that they can be life-changing

New faculty faces

Hiring of 78 educators goes a long way toward strategic plan goal of adding 250 by 2021