News, Articles, Presentations, Videos on: Research, Art, AI and Complementarity, and Other Topics.

• New
  • Robots: What's Taking So Long?? - TEDx talk, 12 mins, 2024.
  • Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet. - 2 hour podcast, 2024.
  • A skeptic’s guide to humanoid-robot videos. - with James O'Donnell, MIT Tech Review, 27 Aug, 2024
  • Let's Give AI a Chance - Op-Ed, Boston Globe, 30 May 2023
  • Ken Goldberg Isn’t Scared of Artificial Intelligence - California Magazine Interview, 30 Nov 2023
  • "This Week in Machine Learning" (TWIML) Podcast (55 min) with Sam Charrington. Discussion of robots and new developments at UC Berkeley, Google, Toyota Research, Deepmind, Tesla, and Ambi Robotics. 14 Nov, 2022.
  • San Francisco Examiner story about Ambi Robotics by Veronica Irwin. Dec 1, 2021.
  • TechXplore story about our work on a new problem: Planar Robot Casting by Ingrid Fadelli. Dec 1, 2021.
  • Audio Interview with Stephanie Cannon of Pitney Bowes about Ambi Robotics. Robot Report Podcast with Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman. October 18, 2021.
  • NPR Marketplace Tech story about Ambi Robotics and Holiday package delivery. Oct 12, 2021.
  • The Robotics Startup That Got Away (from Amazon). by Mark Di Stefano. The Information. 22 July 2021.
  • Getting a Grip on Reality. Guest Editorial. Science Robotics Journal, June 2021.
  • Art and Engineering Interview. National Academy of Engineering, by Ron Latanison and Cameron Fletcher. Bridge Journal, June 2021. pdf version.
  • ICRA Plenary Panel: Synergies between Automation and Robotics IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. June 2021.
  • Robot Surgery Podcast. With Billy Hurley of TechBriefs Magazine, June 2021.
  • Robots in the E-commerce Supply Chain, with Jim Liefer. ROBOGlobal Webinar, June 2021.
  • Robots and Grasping, by Mark Pesce. Cosmos (Australia), June 2021.
  • Art on the Blockchain, by Jenny Jedeikin. SF ARTS Magazine, June 2021.
  • Podcast on Robotics and Automation with Marwa Eldiwiny for IEEE, May 2021. Discussion about design of robot grippers, the role of fault tolerance in automation applications, and the importance of dirty laundry for research.
  • Podcast on Art and Robots with Timothy Reuter. Discussion about painting robots, origins of the Telegarden and AlphaGarden, May 2021.
  • The Robot Surgeon Will See You Now. Article on our robot-assisted surgery project by Cade Metz. NY Times, 30 April 2021.
  • The Post-Pandemic Surge in Robotics and Automation. Interview with Cameron Baradar of the House Fund. UC Berkeley. May 2021.
  • Future of Robots and Automation. Tech Brief. ROBO Global ETF. April 2021.
  • Interview with Ken Goldberg and Jim Liefer of Ambi Robotics. The Robot Report Podcast. Steve Crowe Mike Oitzman. April 16, 2021.
  • Ambi Robotics, formerly Ambidextrous, Raises $6.1M for Picking Robots. Steve Crowe. The Robot Report. March 2021.
  • This Robot Could Help Fulfill Your Online Shopping Sprees. Matt Simon. WiReD. March 2021.
  • Big box robots. Brian Heater. TechCrunch. March 2021.
  • Power Grab: Warehouse Robots Take Materials Handling To Next Level. Rich Blake. Forbes. March 2021.
  • Cool Tools (Conversation about tools I use, eg BugZooka and Mosh) Podcast with Mark Frauenfelder and Kevin Kelly. April 2021.
  • Attention Conversation with Hannah Ginsburg (Philosophy), David Marno (English), Timothy Hampton (Comp Lit). Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley. Feb 2021.
  • What Can a Robot Do? (Interview about art and robots) Conversation with Valentino Catricala, Curator. Feb 2021. Nero Editions, Rome.
  • How AI Amplifies Human Competencies. Rotman School of Business. University Of Toronto. Winter 2020.
  • Anxiety, AI, Art, and Automation. de Young Art Museum (30 min video). San Francisco, CA. 11 Nov 2020.
  • Art and Robots Panel. International Federation of Robotics Research (IFRR), July, 2020.
  • Video: How To Train Your Robot. Dec 2020. Free 15-min video version of the book for kids (below) created with a team from CITRIS and Lawrence Hall subtitled in Spanish, Japanese, Hindi, and simplified Chinese.
  • Covid-19: How Can Roboticists Help? Plenary Opening Panel for IEEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris. June, 2020.
  • Open Problems for Robots in Surgery and Healthcare. Workshop, UC Berkeley, May, 2020.
  • Avuncular Advice from A to Z (for senior PhD students and Postdocs) Slide Deck. Robotics Science and Systems Pioneers Workshop, July, 2020.
  • How To Train Your Robot. Talk for K-12 Students - Cal Day, UC Berkeley, April, 2020.
  • The Third Wave of Robot Grasping. This Week in Machine Learning (TWiML) Podcast with Sam Charrington, March 2020.

• Research (Grasping, Fog Robotics, Healthcare, Agriculture, Social Information Filtering
  • Grasping
    • In Automated Warehouses, Robots' Reach Exceeds Their Grasp. NPR Marketplace. 17 Jun 2020.
    • Learning Ambidextrous Robot Grasping Policies. Science Robotics Journal. 17 Jan 2019.
    • Shake Hands with the Future. New York Times video feature by Mae Ryan, Cade Metz, and Rumsey Taylor. 31 July 2018.
    • How Robots are Grasping the Art of Gripping. Nature Journal. Richard Hodson. Vol 557, Issue 7704. 10 May 2018.
    • Dex-Net 4.0 Robust Robot Grasping. Will Knight. MIT Tech Review, 26 March 2018.
    • In the Future, Warehouse Robots Will Learn on Their Own. Cade Metz (NYTimes, 11 Sep, 2017).
    • The Most Nimble-Fingered Robot Yet (w/video on Dex-Net 2.0). Will Knight (MIT Tech Review, May 2017).
    • Why It's So Hard For Robots To Get A Grip. Sean Captain (Fast Company, Jan 2017).
    • The Future of Robots in Automation. der Spiegel (in German), Feb 2015.
    • Putting the Turing into Manufacturing: Recent Developments in the Science of Automation, PARC Forum, July 2007 (podcast or video, 40 mins)
  • Cloud / Fog Robotics
    • Robots and the Return to Collaborative Intelligence (Commentary). Nature Machine Intelligence Journal. volume 1, pages 2–4. January 2019.
    • Robots with Their Heads in the Clouds. Medium, Aug 2014.
    • The Robot in the Cloud: A Conversation With Quentin Hardy, NY Times, Oct, 2014.
    • Cloud Robotics. Megan Garber. The Atlantic. Jun 28, 2014.
    • Cloud Robotics and the African Robotics Network (AFRON) '$10 Robot' Design Challenge Winners: World Maker Faire 2012 (15 mins, YouTube).
  • Healthcare
    • UC Berkeley and Intel Researchers Developing AI System to Stitch Wounds. Sara Castellanos (Wall St. Journal, June 2020).
    • Update on Robot-Assisted Surgery. Eliza Strickland (IEEE Spectrum, May 2016).
    • Robot-Assisted Surgery - UCSF Surgery Grand Rounds. Oct 2015.
    • New Research Center Aims to Develop Second Generation of Surgical Robots. John Markoff, NY Times, Oct, 2014.
  • Agriculture
    • UC Berkeley Robotics Lab Wants to Fully Automate a Polyculture Garden. Khari Johnson. VentureBeat. Mar 27, 2020.
    • RAPID: Robot-Assisted Precision Irrigation Delivery Project.
    • People and Robots Working Together to Save Water and Enhance Agriculture. Dec 2016.
  • Social Information Filtering
    • Let's Amplify California's Collective Intelligence. Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom and Ken Goldberg. Op-Ed. San Francisco Chronicle. 11 June 2014.
    • Next Generation Brainstorming. Oct 2014 (highlights: 4 mins).
    • UC Berkeley Blog Post on Privacy. (with Lisa Ho) Jan 2017.
    • The Atlantic: Rashomon Project by Adrienne LaFrance. Apr 25, 2014.
    • Hybrid Wisdom Labs with Alexander Howard (O'Reilly). Oct 2011 (8 mins)
    • Presentation on Hybrid Wisdom Labs and Next Generation Brainstorming. Web 2.0. SF, Oct 2011 (10 mins)
    • Opinion Space: Using Dimensionality Reduction to Visualize Public Opinion and Crowdsource Insights, Nov 2010.
    • Presentation on Next Generation Brainstorming and Hybrid Wisdom Labs at Web 2.0. SF, Oct 2011 (10 mins, YouTube).
    • Interview on Hybrid Wisdom with Alexander Howard (O'Reilly) Oct 2011 (8 mins)
    • CITRIS Talk: Opinion Space: Using Dimensionality Reduction to Visualize Public Opinion and Crowdsource Insights, Nov 2010

• Art
  • Remote Control. Kara Platoni (East Bay Express, Nov 2005, hair-raising).
  • Wrestling with the Real: The Art of Ken Goldberg. Sci-Art in America, Interview by Joe Ferguson, Feb 2016.
  • What Can a Robot Do? (Interview about art and robots) Conversation with Valentino Catricala, Curator. Feb 2021. Nero Editions, Rome.
  • Anxiety, AI, Art, and Automation. de Young Art Museum (30 min video). San Francisco, CA. 11 Nov 2020.
  • The Index and the Interface. Article on Legal Tender art installation, by Kris Paulsen. Representations Journal, Vol. 122, No. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 83-109.
  • A Century of Art and Technology in the Bay Area (WAFR. Dec 2016).
  • Bloom, Seismic Artwork. Article in Boom Magazine with JoAnne Northrup (Summer 2015).
  • Ingenious. Video Interview with Jeanne Carstensen. Jan 2015.
  • Robots and Creativity. Naultilus Magazine Interview with Jeanne Carstensen. Jan 2015.
  • J-Weekly: The Golem and Robots. Aug 2013.
  • The Atlantic: Bloom Art Installation. by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, March 25, 2013.
  • Robots and Film. Sloan Foundation, Science on Screen Program. San Rafael, March 2012 (30 mins)
  • Art and Robots. Bay Area Science Festival. SwissNex, SF, Nov 2011 (15 mins, Ch 19-37)
  • Ken Goldberg and the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. Lara Wolfe. Berkeley Center for New Media. Sept 2014.
  • Presentation on the Uncanny, Robots, and Surveillance. (15 mins, YouTube) March 2014.
  • Interview with Jeffrey Inaba and Jesse Seegers, Volume Journal (Dec 2008)
  • My 5 Favorite Movie Robots. (Financial Times, March 2013).
  • Presentation on Art and Robots at SwissNex Consulate, Bay Area Science Festival. SF, Nov 2011 (15 mins, Ch 19-37)
  • Respectful Cameras and John Baldessari (video on Current TV by Tom Green, Dec 2008)
  • KQED TV segment on SPARK (10 min streaming). (17.8 MByte real media file) (March 2005)
  • Ken Goldberg: Overview of Artwork,2004 (Youtube, 9mins)
  • Telegarden video for Tech Museum, San Jose (2004) [5min, .mpg 100MB]
    
  • "Intersecting Art and Technology, " Institute of Industrial Engineering article (Jun 2001)
  • "Planting Seeds of Doubt" Cal Monthly (Nov 2000)