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Brain Corp and UC San Diego partner to advance the foundational intelligence layer for physical AI

May 22, 2026 by Sam Francis

Brain Corp, the real-world AI company, has expanded its research collaboration with the University of California San Diego, which is aimed at advancing semantic mapping and contextual intelligence technologies for autonomous robots operating in complex commercial and industrial environments.

The collaboration reflects a shared ambition to shape the future of physical AI, taking autonomous systems toward a deeper understanding of the physical world around them.

As vision-language-action (VLA) and other generative AI models transform robotics, Brain Corp and researchers at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering are tackling the industry’s most critical challenge: making next-generation autonomous systems reliable, scalable, and commercially deployable in dynamic real-world environments. [Read more…] about Brain Corp and UC San Diego partner to advance the foundational intelligence layer for physical AI

Filed Under: Computing, News, Software Tagged With: AI-powered robots, automation news, autonomous mobile robots, Autonomous robots, autonomous systems, brain corp, brainos, commercial robotics, contextual intelligence, enterprise robotics, Existential Robotics Laboratory, industrial automation, Nikolay Atanasov, physical ai, robotic perception, robotics ai, robotics and automation, robotics and automation news, robotics infrastructure, robotics news, robotics research, semantic mapping, SLAM robotics, uc san diego, vision language action models, VLA models

Robotic skin allows tiny robots to navigate complex, fragile environments

October 15, 2025 by Sam Francis

UC San Diego researchers have developed a soft robotic skin that enables vine robots that are just a few millimeters wide to navigate convoluted paths and fragile environments.

To accomplish this, the researchers integrated a very thin layer of actuators made of liquid crystal elastomer at strategic locations in the soft skin. The robot is steered by controlling the pressure inside its body and temperature of the actuators.

The researchers showed that a robot equipped with this skin could successfully navigate a model of the arteries in a human body. The robot also was able to navigate a model of the interior of a jet engine. [Read more…] about Robotic skin allows tiny robots to navigate complex, fragile environments

Filed Under: News, Science Tagged With: automation news, liquid crystal elastomer, medical robotics, micro robots, precision engineering, robotic skin, robotics and automation, robotics and automation news, robotics news, science advances, soft robotics, steerable robots, uc san diego, vine robots

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