UC San Diego Launches Institute for Applied Health Intelligence

Insider Brief Teleoperated humanoid robots completed two surgeries in a preclinical trial, a first step toward using more mobile and flexible robots in operating rooms where surgical access is limited. The proof-of-concept experiment, published in the July 8 issue of Nature, was conducted by engineers and surgeons at UC San Diego to test whether humanoid […]

The post UC San Diego humanoid robots perform live surgery in world first appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Two humanoid robots controlled from afar performed two surgeries at the University of California, San Diego. According to a study published July 8 in Nature, this is the first time that general-purpose humanoid machines have been used on living subjects. The outcome is important for the many people around the world who can’t reliably get in touch with surgeons. Small robots that a doctor can control remotely could be used in places where specialized surgical systems can’t reach. In the first surgery, a robot and a real surgeon worked together. The surgeon helped take out the gallbladder with the machine. The second method went even further. There was no one at the table when the two humanoid robots worked together. The researchers say that both surgeries were done on large mammals that are not primates. The engineers and surgeons who worked on the study called their robots “Su

Repurposing old phones into data centers highlights sustainable tech innovation, potentially influencing future resource-efficient computing solutions. The post Google and UC San Diego want to turn 2,000 old Pixel phones into a data center appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

UC San Diego's DFlash replaces autoregressive drafting with a lightweight block diffusion model for speculative decoding. It drafts whole token blocks in a single forward pass and conditions on target hidden features through KV injection. The paper reports up to 6.08x lossless speedup on Qwen3-8B, while NVIDIA reports up to 15x throughput on Blackwell at fixed interactivity. DFlash ships 20 checkpoints and supports SGLang, vLLM, and TensorRT-LLM. The post DFlash Speculative Decoding Drafts Whole Token Blocks in Parallel for Up to 15x Higher Throughput on NVIDIA Blackwell appeared first on MarkTechPost.

The data center is a living lab for students and faculty that will enable world-class research and instruction June 11, 2026 — The Computer Science and Engineering Department at the […] The post UC San Diego Unveils Next-Gen Data Center to Support AI Research Growth appeared first on AIwire.

Insider Brief Brain Corp is expanding its research collaboration with the University of California San Diego to develop technologies aimed at helping autonomous robots better understand and navigate complex real-world environments. “Robotics has reached a point where the challenge is no longer simply movement or perception, but understanding,” Brain Corp CTO John Black said in […]

May 1, 2026 — More than 100 undergraduate students enrolled in the University of California San Diego’s new artificial intelligence major took their first major-specific course, CSE 25: Intro to AI, […] The post UC San Diego Students Get an Intro to AI in First AI Major Class appeared first on AIwire.

April 28, 2026 — The University of California San Diego has established the Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing thanks to $125 million in support from alumnus Taner Halıcıoğlu. […] The post UC San Diego Receives $125M from Taner Halıcıoğlu to Support Data Science School appeared first on AIwire.