Ken Goldberg
Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering, UC Berkeley
Chief Scientist, Ambi Robotics and Jacobi Robotics
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- News, Presentations, Interviews
- Contact Info and Office Hours
- CV
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- AUTOLab (Automation Research)
- BAIR: Berkeley AI Research Lab.
- IEOR: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department
- EECS: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
- COE: College of Engineering.
- Art Practice Department
- Radiation Oncology Department, UCSF
- UC Berkeley
- BCNM: Berkeley Center for New Media.
- Sky Computing Lab
- CAL-MR: Center for Automation and Learning for Medical Robotics.
- ATC: Art, Technology, and Culture Lecture Series.
- Twitter / X
- Ancient Wisdom: art exhibit (Los Angeles)
- Breathless: robot dance performance (NY and SF)
- Is Data All You Need? Large Robot Action Models and Good Old Fashioned Engineering
- Augmented Surgical Dexterity (Science Robotics, Nov 2024)
- Robots: What's Taking So Long?? (TED talk)
- Chair, BAIR Steering Committee
- Chief Scientist, Ambi Robotics
- Chief Scientist, Jacobi Robotics
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) Executive Board
- Editorial Board - Science Robotics Journal
- Orienting Polygonal Parts Without Sensors (online algorithm)
- Editorial: Getting a Grip on Reality. Science Robotics. V6(54), 26 May 2021.
- Art and Engineering Interview, National Academy of Engineering. Bridge Journal, June 2021.
- ICRA Plenary Panel: Synergies between Automation and Robotics (June 2021)
- New AUTOLab Papers (June 2021)
- Orienting Polygonal Parts Without Sensors (in Python)
- AUTOLab Papers (Nov 2020)
- How To Train Your Robot (free 15 min kids video)
- How To Train Your Robot (free kids book)
- AlphaGarden
- IFRR Panel on Art and Robots (10 Sept 2020)
- CITRIS People and Robots Initiative Weekly Seminar Series
- General Chair, 2022 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Auckland, New Zealand.
- Avuncular Advice from A to Z (RSS Pioneers Workshop for senior PhD and Postdocs, 11 July 2020)
- Adversarial Grasp Objects.
- Dexterity Network (Dex-Net) 4.0: Deep Learning for Robust Grasping of Generic Objects
- Complementarity: Is AI a Threat...or an Opportunity?
- Dex-Net 1.0 as a Service (DNaaS)
- Fog Robotics
- The Center for Automation and Learning for Medical Robotics (Cal-MR)
- Robots, Botox, and Google Glass (Short Documentary Film)
- Robots with Their Heads in the Clouds
- International Advisory Board, Chronus Media Art Center, Shanghai
- The Science of Character (Short Documentary Film)
- Why We Love Robots (Short Documentary Film, Botscar Award: Robot Film Festival, Nominated: Emmy Award)
- Fitts' Law: Open-Access Datasets with 94,000 Timing Measurements
- Opinion Space: Social Media for Innovation and Insight
- The Rashomon Project (Multi-Perspective Video Timelines)
- UC Berkeley Regents' Lectures Program
- LACMA Art and Technology Lab
- Jester Dataset of 6.5M joke ratings for Collaborative Filtering and Recommender Systems (updated Nov 2020)
- Algorithmic Automation
- Art Projects
- Applets (interactive Java software) and Videos
- Research Papers
- Summary of Research Contributions
- Berkeley Automation Science Lab
- Patents
- Java Applets, Interactive Online Demonstrations, and Videos
- ICRA Plenary Panel: Covid-19: How Can Roboticists Help? (June 2020)
- Open Problems for Robots in Surgery and Healthcare (Workshop, May 2020)
- The Third Wave of Robot Grasping (This Week in AI (twiml) Podcast with Sam Charrington (March 2020)
- Debate on Sim2Real at Robotics: Science and Systems Conference Workshop (July 2020)
- SCHooL: Scalable Collaborative Human-Robot Learning (NSF NRI Project)
- RAPID: Robot-Assisted Precision Irrigation Delivery (USDA/NSF NRI Project)
- CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative
- NSF National Robotics Initiative Project: Multilateral Manipulation by Human-Robot Collaborative Systems
- Collaborative Assessment and Feedback Engine (CAFE)
- Chancellor's Award for Research in the Public Interest (for CAFE)
- Creative Compliance: Workshop on Robots and Art, IEEE ICRA, Brisbane, AU
- Top US Schools to Study Robotics
- First Conference on Robot Learning (#CoRL2017), Mountain View, CA, Nov 13-15, 2017. Co-Chair
- Free Speech on Free Speech (Online Dialogue)
- Free Speech Symposium at UC Berkeley
- Symposium on Robot Learning (SoRL), UC Berkeley, May 1, 2017. Co-Chair.
- AI in Automation Workshop, ICRA, Singapore, June 2 2017. Co-Chair.
- Inclusive AI: Technology and Policy for a Diverse Urban Future, UC Berkeley, May 10, 2017. Program Committee.
- 12th Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), Dec 18-20, 2016. San Francisco
- NSF National Robotics Initiative Project: Multilateral Manipulation by Human-Robot Collaborative Systems
- CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative
- Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
- Cloud Manufacturing and Automation Workshop
- Steering Flexible Needles through Soft Tissues (NIH Project)
- Concept Sketch: ALAN, A Practical Robot for Industry?
- Motion Planning in Medicine: Optimization and Simulation Algorithms for Image-Guided Procedures: (Monograph).
- Member, Technical Activities Board, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
- Hybrid Wisdom Labs
- Donation Dashboard: Recommending Charities with Collaborative Filtering
- Steering Flexible Needles through Soft Tissues (NIH Project)
- ANA*: An Anytime Nonparametric A* Search Algorithm
- CONE: Collaborative Observatories for Natural Environments (NSF Project)
- CONE Welder: Online Game using Robot Camera to Document Wild Birds (NSF/Smithsonian Project)
- ACONE: Autonomous Camera for the Search for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (NSF Project)
- Respectful Cameras (NSF Project)
- Jester 4.0: Recommending Jokes with Collaborative Filtering
- Academic CV
- Tele-Actor archive
- Collaborative Teleoperation archive
- The Tele-Actor and Collaborative Telerobotics
- Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots (MIT Press, 2002)
- The Robot in the Garden (MIT Press, 2000)
- Stochastic Plans for Robotic Manipulation (PhD Dissertation, 1990, searchable pdf, 45MB)
- TechCrunch Robotics Symposium, May 2018, UC Berkeley
- The California Report Card
- QuakeCAFE Platform for Earthquake Preparedness
- Robotics at UC Berkeley
- Ongoing: Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
- S25: IEOR 215: Analysis and Design of Database Systems
- F24: IEOR 375: Proseminar on Teaching Engineering
- F24: IEOR 115: Industrial and Commercial Data Systems
- S24: IEOR 215: Analysis and Design of Database Systems
- F23: IEOR 375: Proseminar on Teaching Engineering
- F23: IEOR 115: Industrial and Commercial Data Systems
- S23: IEOR 215: Analysis and Design of Database Systems
- F22: IEOR 375: Proseminar on Teaching Engineering
- F22: IEOR 115: Industrial and Commercial Data Systems
- S22: IEOR 215: Analysis and Design of Database Systems
- S21: IEOR 215: Analysis and Design of Database Systems
- F20: IEOR 375: Proseminar on Teaching Engineering
- F20: IEOR 115: Industrial and Commercial Data Systems
- F20: CS 298-015: BAIR First Year Proseminar
- F19: IEOR 375: Proseminar on Teaching Engineering
- F19: IEOR 115: Industrial and Commercial Data Systems
- F19: CS 298-015: BAIR First Year Proseminar
- F18: IEOR 115: Industrial and Commercial Data Systems
- F18: NE 375: Teaching Techniques for Engineering
- F17: IEOR 115: Industrial and Commercial Data Systems
- F16: IEOR 115: Industrial and Commercial Data Systems
- F16: IEOR 66: A Bivariate Introduction to IE and OR
- S16: IEOR 170: Industrial Design and Human Factors
- S16: EE 106B/206B: Robotic Manipulation and Interaction
- F15: IEOR 24: Freshman Seminar: Intro to IEOR
- S15: IEOR 170: Industrial Design and Human Factors
- F14: IEOR 115: Industrial and Commercial Data Systems
- F14: IEOR 24: Freshman Seminar: Intro to IEOR
- S14: IEOR 170: Industrial Design and Human Factors
- F13: IEOR 115: Industrial and Commercial Data Systems
- F13: NWMEDIA 201: Questioning New Media
- F13: IEOR 24: Freshman Seminar: Intro to IEOR
- S11: IEOR 215: Analysis and Design of Databases
- S10: LS 160E: Technology, New Media, and Contemporary Experience
- F09: BCNM's 'Future of the Forum' Symposium
- F06: Symposium: Unblinking: New Perspectives on Visual Privacy
- S06: IEOR 190G: Questioning Efficiency: Human Factors and Existential Phenomenology
- S02: Advanced Product Design Studio, Pasadena Art Center College of Design
- S02: EECS 287 / IEOR 290k: Advanced Topics in Robotics
- S00: IEOR 140: Industrial Production Methods
- Why We Love Robots (Short Documentary Film)
- S99: Art 160a: Special Topics in Visual Studies
- S99: SFAI Grad Critique Seminar on Net Art
- F97: CS 294-5: Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
- F96: IEOR 290K: Algorithms for Robotic Manufacturing
- Current and Past Art Projects
- Artist Portfolio (2011)
- The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
- Artist Resume
- Selected High Resolution Images
- Bloom (an internet-based earthwork)
- Engineering Utopia Exhibition on Art and Engineering at Ohio State University
- Wow and Flutter (an internet-based earthwork)
- The Making of a Mensch (Short Documentary Film)
- Multiplicity: Let's Move Beyond the 'Singularity': Medium Essay
- Multiplicity: 5-min Video
- Robots and Creativity: Nautilus Interview
- Natural Frequencies: Installation and Performance for the 100th anniversary of UC Berkeley's Sather Tower
- Wow and Flutter (an internet-based earthwork)
- A Century of Art and Technology in the Bay Area (essay)
- Robot Art and Science event at the de Young Museum (20 Nov)
- Body-in-White Robot Sculpture
- Adam, Golem, Robot.
- Body-in-White Robot Sculpture
- The Uncanny Valley Revisited: A Tribute to Masahiro Mori at IROS 2013
- Workshop on Art and Robotics: Freud's Unheimlich and the Uncanny Valley
- Natural Frequencies: Installation and Performance for the 100th anniversary of UC Berkeley's Sather Tower
- The Rabbi and the Robot
- STEAM: Using the Arts to Expand Public Interest in STEM Fields
- Fiat Lux: Collaborative Discovery Engine for the Ansel Adams Image Library
- Afghan War Report Report (Data and Poetry)
- Are We There Yet? (Art Installation)
- What Would Rembrandt Post? (Panel Discussion)
- Teen Age: You Just Don't Understand (Art Exhibition)
- mementomori: an internet-based earthwork
- The Robot in the Garden (MIT Press, 2000)
- Facing the Future (Short Parody Film)
- Brain Power (Short Documentary Film)
- A Declaration of Interdependence (Short Documentary Film)
- Connected (Feature Documentary Film)
- Yelp (with Apologies to Allen Ginsberg) (Short Documentary Film)
- The Tribe (Short Documentary Film)
- Pan-Optics Symposium: Emerging Perspectives on Visual Privacy and Surveillance
- Unblinking: New Perspectives on Visual Privacy (Symposium, Nov 2006)
- The Telegarden
- Chair, Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab Steering Committee
- Director, People and Robots Initiative, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
- Editorial Board, Science Robotics journal
- Lawrence Hall of Science, Chair, Academic Advisory Board
- Executive Committee, Berkeley Center for New Media
- Editorial Advisory Board, Springer-Verlag: Advanced Robotics Book Series
- Member, Technical Activities Board, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
- Co-Founder, IEEE Technical Committee on Networked Robotics
- Founder, The Melvin M. Goldberg Research-in-Israel Fellowship
- Founding Director, The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
- emeritus Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
- News, Presentations, Interviews
- (old version) News, Articles, Presentations
- Op-Ed: Multiplicity: Are AI and Robots a Threat...or an Opportunity?
- Op-Ed on Manufacturing Research
- Understanding Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF)
- Countering Singularity Sensationalism: Review of Three New AI Books. Oct 2015 (Nature Journal)
- Flash version of this page
- Dual Design: Maintaining Consistent Flash and Html Pages
- IEEE Spectrum Updates on Robotics
- Old IEEE T-ASE Website
- The Proposition 30 Awareness Project
- Archive of Old Links
- Other Ken Goldbergs
- OLD page: Berkeley AUTOLAB
- OLD page: Center for Automation and Learning for Medical Robotics (Cal-MR)
- NEW Home Page Under Construction
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