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Companies are looking toward emerging technologies to help create the next generation of smart, collaborative manufacturing.

November 30, 2018 – When a wildfire started in Orange County California’s Holy Jim Canyon last summer, a new ally helped firefighters control it. High atop a nearby mountain known as Santiago Peak, six cameras mounted on a Southern California Edison communication tower and conne

November 30, 2018 – California Electrification was the featured topic at the recent Igniting Technology event held Thursday, Nov. 29 at CALIT2 Irvine. California has established the ambitious goal of relying entirely on zero-emission energy sources for its electricity. In Septem

October 10, 2018 –  Nearly 250 students from four area high schools toured CALIT2 labs and met with dozens of manufacturing professions at “Manufacturing Day 2018,” held Tuesday at CALIT2. The nation-wide event encourages manufacturers to open their doors and inspire young

September 24, 2018 –  It’s not easy to keep clean rooms operating at peak efficiency. These highly sterile facilities, including CALIT2’s Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility (INRF) and Bio-Organic Nanofabrication (BiON), strictly limit contaminants, requiring filtered and r

September 06, 2018 –  After a summer immersed in learning, conducting research and listening to talks presented by others, this year’s SURF-IoT Fellows finally got their moment in the spotlight. Twelve of the program’s 13 students shared the results of their 10-week research eff

August 22, 2018 –  By 2030, the cybersphere could account for half of the world’s total energy usage and 23 percent of emitted greenhouse gases, according to some estimates. The cybersphere encompasses not just the endless flow of digital information across the internet, but als

August 22, 2018 –  SURF-IoT mentor and UCI Prof. Chen Li was the featured speaker at the SURF-IoT Summer Seminar Series, Wednesday, Aug. 22, at CALIT2. His presentation, “Data Analytics as a Service for Data Scientists” described the challenges often faced by data scientists and

August 14, 2018 –  A delegation representing China, including Zhang Ping, Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles met with CALIT2 director, G.P. Li and toured the research facility Monday. This was the first diplomatic visit made to UCI by Ping s

July 26, 2018 – Should you find yourself inside a cereal-processing plant in the not-too-distant future, you may notice − along with conveyor belts moving heaps of grain to be steamed, dried, shredded, baked or toasted − that a revolution is underway. Motors running the conveyor

July 12, 2018 – This year 13 undergraduate students have been selected to participate in the 2018 SURF- IoT (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the Internet of Things). The annual program, which was introduced in 2005, is a 10-week program for UCI undergraduates, design

June 12, 2018 – On June 7, members from the California Network for Manufacturing Innovation Inc. (CNMI) topped-off their day-long summit with a tour of several labs at CALIT2. The CNMI summit, themed, “Automation: The Next Generation of Lean,” was held at UCI’s Applied Innovatio