Mechanical Engineering Ph.D student Parnian Hemmati receives the Cohen Award for 2024 ISCST Conference
Mechanical Engineering Ph.D student Parnian Hemmati receives the Cohen Award for 2024 ISCST Conference. ISCST “Edward D. Cohen” Student Award supports students in gaining valuable experience by attending and presenting at the bi-annual ISCST Symposium, covering...
UCLA engineers become 6-time RoboCup soccer world champions
Team RoMeLa knocked out four opponents in six matches at an international tournament in the Netherlands
Professor Yongjie Hu and Team Report First Thermal Experiment on Moiré Pattern in Twisted Graphene for Engineering Quantum Devices
MAE Professor Yongjie Hu led a research team that has reported for the first time thermal measurements in twisted graphene and uncovered polarized phonon spectral transport with quantum coupling in Moiré pattern. Twisted van der Waals materials featuring Moiré...
Successful 2024 MAE Town Hall
AIAA at UCLA hosted a successful and productive 2024 MAE Town Hall on January 17th, bringing together students and faculty to communicate and work together, taking on student concerns as opportunities to find solutions. To complement the serious discussions and to...
Professor CJ Kim, in collaboration with UCSB, awarded a $1M research award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Professor CJ Kim, in collaboration with Prof. Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz at UC Santa Barbara, has won a $1M (18 months) research award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Managed by the Defense Science Office (DSO) of DARPA, the funded research is to...
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates met with UCLA Prof. Dennis Hong, director of RoMeLa, to discuss robots on Gates Notes
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates met with UCLA Prof. Dennis Hong, director of RoMeLa, to discuss how robots can play a critical role in improving health care, hospitality, agriculture, manufacturing and construction. His meeting and his robots were featured on Gates...
Team RoMeLa wins 3rd Place at “RoboCup 2023” held in Bordeaux, France, July 4 -10, 2023.
Team RoMeLa wins 3rd Place at “RoboCup 2023” held in Bordeaux, France, July 4 -10, 2023. RoboCup is a prestigious international competition for autonomous soccer robots. The official goal of RoboCup is to develop fully autonomous humanoid robots that can defeat the...
Robotics lab RoMeLa unveils a fully automated cooking robot YORI with live cooking demonstrations at the 2023 Global Food-Tech Conference in Seoul, Korea, July 26, 2023.
Robotics lab RoMeLa unveils a fully automated cooking robot YORI with live cooking demonstrations at the 2023 Global Food-Tech Conference in Seoul, Korea, July 26, 2023. * Newspaper article (Korean): https://it.chosun.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=2023072603106 *...
Team RoMeLa wins the “2023 International Humanoid Locomotion Competition” held at the International IEEE Humanoid Conference 2023 (Austin, TX, Dec 12-14) with the world’s fastest humanoid robot ARTEMIS developed at RoMeLa.
Team RoMeLa wins the “2023 International Humanoid Locomotion Competition” held at the International IEEE Humanoid Conference 2023 (Austin, TX, Dec 12-14) with the world’s fastest humanoid robot ARTEMIS developed at RoMeLa. * Competition: 2023 Humanoid Locomotion...