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News, Articles, Presentations:

• Multiplicity: Are AI and Robots a Threat...or an Opportunity? Oct 2017 (with link to June Wall St Journal Op-Ed).
• Shake Hands with the Future. New York Times feature by Mae Ryan, Cade Metz, and Rumsey Taylor. 31 July 2018.
• How Robots are Grasping the Art of Gripping. Nature feature by Richard Hodson. Vol 557, Issue 7704. 10 May 2018.
• Dex-Net 4.0 Robust Robot Grasping. Will Knight. MIT Tech Review, 26 March 2018.
• "Multiplicity: An Antidote to Automation Anxiety" ReInvent SF video, July 2017.
• TEDxOakland: "Are AI and Robots a Threat...or an Opportunity?" (20 mins, 22 Oct 2017).
• TEDxBerkeley: "Can Robots Inspire Us To Be Better Humans?" (17 mins, May 2012).
• In the Future, Warehouse Robots Will Learn on Their Own. Cade Metz (NYTimes, 11 Sep, 2017).
• "Rise of the Robots" The Next Billion Seconds - Podcast with Mark Pesce, (42 mins, 2 Dec 2017).
• The Most Nimble-Fingered Robot Yet (w/video on Dex-Net 2.0). Will Knight (MIT Tech Review, May 2017).
• Springer-Nature Panel on Life and Robotics. Heidelberg, Germany. Oct 2017.
• Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution. Jeff Goodell (Rolling Stone Magazine, March 2016).
• AI on Brain Hunter. Pere Estupinya (TVE: TeleVision Espanola, Spanish National TV, Sep 2017 - my segment is 11:44-17:00).
• Podcast with Erik Davis.
• Countering Singularity Sensationalism: Review of Three New AI Books. (Nature Journal, 2015).
• Remote Control. Kara Platoni (East Bay Express, Nov 2005, hair-raising).
• Let's Ditch the Singularity and Focus on Multiplicity (Medium 2015).
• The First Pair of Tongs: A Paradox for Rabbis and Robots. Adam Naftalin-Kelman and Ken Goldberg (J-Weekly, April 2017).
• Why It's So Hard For Robots To Get A Grip. Sean Captain (Fast Company, Jan 2017).
• San Francisco Thought Leaders. Print Magazine, Spring 2017.
• Wrestling with the Real: The Art of Ken Goldberg. Sci-Art in America, Interview by Joe Ferguson, Feb 2016.
• Don't Worry: AI Needs Humans. Ken Goldberg (NY Times Magazine Letters Jan 2017).
• Update on Robot-Assisted Surgery. Eliza Strickland (IEEE Spectrum, May 2016).
• USDA Grant for Robot-Assisted Precision Irrigation Delivery (RAPID), (Dec 2016).
• A Century of Art and Technology in the Bay Area (WAFR. Dec 2016).
• Wonderland Episode 1: Could You Fall in Love with a Robot? With Steven Johnson. (Podcast. Aug 2016).
• Robot-Assisted Surgery - UCSF Surgery Grand Rounds. Oct 2015.
• The Future of Robots in Automation. der Spiegel (in German), Feb 2015.
• Bloom, Seismic Artwork. Article in Boom Magazine with JoAnne Northrup (Summer 2015).
• Will Machines Make Better Decisions Than Humans? (World Economic Forum, Jan 2015, 5 mins).
• Multiplicity is More Valuable Than Singularity. Interview with Audrow Nash (2015).
• 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).
• The Future of Robots and Jobs. BBC Forum Radio. March 2015.
• Robots and Creativity. Naultilus Magazine Interview with Jeanne Carstensen. Jan 2015.
• New Research Center Aims to Develop Second Generation of Surgical Robots. John Markoff, NY Times, Oct, 2014.
• Robots with Their Heads in the Clouds. Medium, Aug 2014.
• The Robot in the Cloud: A Conversation With Quentin Hardy, NY Times, Oct, 2014.
• Ken Goldberg and the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. Lara Wolfe. Berkeley Center for New Media. Sept 2014.
• Cloud Robotics. Megan Garber. The Atlantic. Jun 28, 2014.
• The Atlantic: Rashomon Project by Adrienne LaFrance. Apr 25, 2014.
• Presentation on the Uncanny, Robots, and Surveillance. (15 mins, YouTube) March 2014.
• 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)
• Telerobots, Androids, and Heidegger with Erico Guizzo. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. March 2011. (.pdf)
• 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)
• Interview with Harry Kreisler, April 2011 (video).
• NPR Tech Nation radio interview with Dr. Moira Gunn, Nov 2010
• Robots For Real. IEEE Spectrum and NPR Radio. 2009.
• Opinion Space: Using Dimensionality Reduction to Visualize Public Opinion and Crowdsource Insights, Nov 2010.
• Interview with Jeffrey Inaba and Jesse Seegers, Volume Journal (Dec 2008)
• Presentation on Next Generation Brainstorming and Hybrid Wisdom Labs at Web 2.0. SF, Oct 2011 (10 mins, YouTube).
• Cloud Robotics and the '$10 Robot' Design Challenge Winners: World Maker Faire 2012 (15 mins, YouTube).
• Conversation with William Gibson at JCC SF. Oct 2012 (1 hour video at bottom of page).
• 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.
• Future of Robotics interview on UC Science Today. Jan 2013 (Audio, 20 mins).
• 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)
• Interview on Hybrid Wisdom with Alexander Howard (O'Reilly) Oct 2011 (8 mins)
• Interview on Telerobots, Androids, and Heidegger with Erico Guizzo IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. March 2011. (.pdf)
• Conversations with History Interview with Harry Kreisler, April 2011. (video).
• NPR Tech Nation radio interview with Dr. Moira Gunn, Nov 2010
• IEEE Spectrum and NPR Radio Show: Robots for Real, 2009
• CITRIS Talk: Opinion Space: Using Dimensionality Reduction to Visualize Public Opinion and Crowdsource Insights, Nov 2010
• Interview with Jeffrey Inaba and Jesse Seegers, Volume Journal (Dec 2008)
• "'Made in the USA' can be Revitalized". Ken Goldberg and Vijay Kumar. Op-Ed. San Jose Mercury News. 24 October, 2007.
• Respectful Cameras and John Baldessari (video on Current TV by Tom Green, Dec 2008)
• Interview with Nick Kaye for The Presence Project (Oct 2007)
• Forefront feature on robots assisting the search for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker (Fall 2006)
• Future of Search: Beyond Data: UC Berkeley Presentation, May 2007 (youtube, 7mins)
• The Ghost Bird and the Robot by David Pescovitz (Fall 2006)
• Putting the Turing into Manufacturing: Recent Developments in the Science of Automation, PARC Forum, July 2007 (podcast or video, 40 mins)
• Conversations with History Interview with Harry Kreisler, August 2005. (video).
• RU Sirius Podcast Interview Transcript (pdf) (June 2005)
• 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)
• Art Reviews
• Digitized Art Reviews (in .pdf format)
• Selected Articles on Research 2001-2008