EECS Professors Ken Goldberg and Jitendra Malik will lead two UC Berkeley research projects as part of the next phase of the Toyota Research Institute’s University Research Program (URP 3.0), a five-year collaboration supporting curiosity-driven research across robotics, AI, mobility, and materials science.Goldberg’s project, “Amplifying Robot Failure Recovery Data for Large Behavior Models,” focuses on how robots can learn from and recover from failure at scale. Malik’s project, “Scaling Up Robot Learning with Heterogeneous Representation Learning,” explores how robots can generalize across diverse data sources and environments. Both efforts advance core questions in modern robot learning.Beginning in 2026, URP 3.0 will support 73 research projects across 31 North American universities, bringing together 88 TRI researchers and 104 faculty members. The program welcomes 11 new institutions this cycle and is designed to sustain long-term academic research while connecting it to real-world outcomes in industry.