09/01/2026 - Robots excel in a factory where every movement is programmed in an unchanging environment. But put those same robots in a typical home and they stumble. Homes are messy and unstructured: furniture moves, new items appear every day and the tasks required to navigate a dynamic environment change constantly.Read More
08/27/2026 - UT computer scientist Joydeep Biswas will lead the new NSF Center for Human and Robot Co-Adaptation. The center will unite researchers from six universities to study how robots and people can learn from and adapt to one another.Read Article
08/20/2026 - When incoming Longhorn freshmen sit down this summer to register for their first college courses, there’s a tool they’ll almost certainly be told to download: Read More
08/12/2026 - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently launched its landmark $293M Genesis Mission—a national initiative that will combine artificial intelligence, supercomputing, and scientific instrumentation into the world’s most powerful integrated research discovery platform.Read More
08/03/2026 - Dr. Peter Stone interviewed by the Associated Press for a story on rising student demand for AI courses that span majors and disciplines. Dr. Stone emphasized the need for AI literacy and broad access to it. AP highlighted UT’s Essentials of AI for Life and Society course, open to all students across disciplines. Read Article
07/24/2026 - Carter Leslie is a software engineer at USAA who enrolled in UT Austin's online Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence program in fall 2024. A double CS and math major from Abilene Christian University, he was drawn to AI for sitting squarely at the intersection of both disciplines. Now on the verge of completing the degree in five semesters while working full-time, he sat down to reflect on the experience. Read More
07/22/2026 - ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.” Assistant Professor of Computer Science Elias Stengel-Eskin talks to KXAN News. Watch the broadcast. Read More
07/13/2026 - UT Austin Villa, the award-winning robot soccer team from Texas Robotics, recently returned from Incheon, South Korea, where they competed in RoboCup 2026, the world’s largest and most prestigious robotics competition. The team, led by professors Peter Stone and Joydeep Biswas, is made up of three PhD students and three undergraduates.Read More
07/09/2026 - Today, Ritika Gunnar (B.S. ’99) helps shape how IBM integrates AI into the future of enterprise systems, a role she would not have imagined when she arrived at UT in 1994 as a biology major on a pre-med track. That plan changed after a single surgery observation. “I almost passed out,” she admits with a laugh. “That was not for me.” Read More
