The Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIS) at UC Riverside is an interdepartmental research center that conducts cutting-edge research on the foundations and applications of intelligent and autonomous systems, including robotics, computer vision, machine learning, and real-time systems. The Center brings together researchers from academia and industry to develop cross-disciplinary solutions to key societal problems and train the next generation of researchers and practitioners. Application areas of interest include security, biomedical systems, environmental monitoring, agricultural automation, transportation, logistics, and manufacturing. The Center also organizes seminars, workshops, and lectures to facilitate the scholarly dissemination of ideas, promotes research and educational activities for students, and provides its affiliated members with state of the art computational and robotic facilities.