Selected Press Coverage

Year Source Title
2025 UW News Video: The UW’s assistive-feeding robot gets tested outside the lab
2025 UW CREATE Student Minigrant Story: Assistive-Feeding Robot Tested in the Real World
2025 GeekWire Robotics pioneer Sidd Srinivasa on the ‘last mile problem,’ humanoid hype, and why he’s joining Madrona
2025 Oregon Public Broadcast People with motor impairments help develop robotic feeding assistant at University of Washington
2025 UW Engineering Good Grips
2023 LinkedIn Why Cruise AVs want everyone to win on the road
2023 GeekWire Amazon robotics leader leaves to join self-driving vehicle venture Cruise
2022 Madrona Robotics Expert Sidd Srinivasa on Trends and What’s Ripe for Innovation
2022 GeekWire New Science Hub to launch at Univ. of Washington with $1.9M from Amazon
2021 Wall Street Journal Warehouse Robotics Provider Berkshire Grey to Go Public Through $2.7B SPAC Deal
2019 Wired These Small Cars Can Help Drive the Autonomous Future
2019 Fast Company The best interactive design of the year
2019 BBC News Robot arm can feed people with mobility issues
2018 GeekWire UW’s HERB robot makes cameo on X-Files as automated sushi waiter
2018 GeekWire Amazon hires top UW computer science prof as new robotics director
2017 Allen School News Siddhartha Srinivasa and Tao Xie named Fellows of the IEEE
2017 GeekWire Robotics expert moves entire team to UW, including famous Oreo-cracking robot
2017 New York Times Learning to love our robot co-workers
2016 Wired Come on, Let’s Give the Robots Hands Already
2015 New York Times Uber Would Like to Buy Your Robotics Department
2014 NPR Robots that Care: The QoLT Center Changing the World of Caregiving
2014 National Geographic Robots 3D IMAX Movie
2014 Washington Post HERB: A robot that can unload a dishwasher and (sometimes) take apart an Oreo
2014 National Geographic Going Deep with David Rees: How to open a door
2013 CNN When it’s too hard to separate Oreos …
2013 New York Times Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, to Care for the Aging
2012 Popular Science HERB the Robot Butler Microwaves Your Dinner For You
2009 Granta What I think about when I think about robots
2009 Scientific American Can Robots Be Programmed to Learn from Their Own Experiences?