Innovation and Entrepreneurship

A student focuses intently as he operates one arm of a many-armed robot, while a teacher watches

The future is robotic surgery. These students get a front-row seat

UC San Francisco

August 28, 2025

UCSF is the first university to certify medical students as bedside assistants for robotic surgeries, giving the next generation of surgeons a head start in a burgeoning field.

Take a tour of your thoughts with the 'Glass Brain'

The Glass Brain is kind of like it sounds. It’s a colorful, 3-D window into all the mysterious activities that light up the brain.

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Feeding right-brain innovation

How the arts and humanities are driving entrepreneurial creativity.

10 game-changing grad student startups

Young enterprises disrupt everything from health care to agriculture.

Light the way you were meant to see it

The campus tests out energy-efficient lighting the way humans were meant to see it — in living color.