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Ken Goldberg on TechCrunch Robotics at Berkeley in CGTN America

28 May, 2018

Ken Goldberg on TechCrunch Robotics at Berkeley in CGTN America

BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg was quoted in CGTN's article about the TechCrunch Sessions, "Latest in robotics, technology gets the spotlight at TechCrunch Sessions."

CGTN writer Mark Niu interviewed Ken Goldberg in his article:

I asked Ken Goldberg, a University of California-Berkeley Industrial Engineering Professor, whether he thought it was inevitable that robots would replace human jobs.

“No, I don’t think so,” said Goldberg. “In fact, I think we’re actually going to have a shortage of human workers in the future because of the demographics. Many workers are leaving the workforce because they are aging. And we don’t have enough workers coming in. It’s able to do some things better than humans, but there are many things where humans are going to be necessary.”

Read the entirety of the CGTN America article here.

You can watch the highlights video below, or click here to watch directly on YouTube.