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Ken Goldberg Discusses the Biggest Robotics Trends of 2022

23 Dec, 2022

Ken Goldberg Discusses the Biggest Robotics Trends of 2022

U.C. Berkeley robotics professor and chief scientist at Ambi Robotics Ken Goldberg answered many questions at a Q&A where he discussed the biggest robotic trends of 2022!

Ken Goldberg recalled three major robotics developments in 2022 that stand out to him: The surprising progress of large language models (e.g., GPT-3) and associated text-to-image generation; Elon Musk reframing Tesla as a robotics company, with their associated research initiative into humanoid robots; and the widespread adoption of robots in warehouses to meet the increasing demand for e-commerce was not diminished by the return to stores or inflation.

He also gave his own predictions for robot trends in 2023, "I believe we’ll see robots-as-a-service (RaaS) models that make robots available to a much wider segment of industry (e.g., Model T Ford financing that opened up car-buying to the middle class)."

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