5 days ago Special Events Terminal Island: Degrowth & Mismaking with Lovage Sharrock and Jon Leidecker Presented by the Center for New Music and Associated Technologies (CNMAT). Co-sponsored by Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) Read more
28 Aug, 2023 Art, Tech & Culture The ghost in the machine is me. with Jen Liu, Artist Moderated by Xiaowei R. Wang Accompanied by Mia J. Chong, Dancer Co-sponsored by the English Department and the Department of Art Practice Read more
29 Sep, 2021 Special Events Refamiliarization: Day 1 Curator tour, exhibition opening, performance, and screening Read more
28 Sep, 2021 Special Events Refamiliarization The New Media Working Group presents a week-long show of artworks that speculate on practices and technologies that interrupt the habituation compelled by COVID-era domestic data extraction and quotidian mediations. Read more
07 Nov, 2020 Art, Tech & Culture The Sinofuturist Trilogy: Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD), Geomancer, and AIDOL with Lawrence Lek Artist, Filmmaker and Musician Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Art Practice. Read more
13 Apr, 2020 Art, Tech & Culture ONLINE: Neural Abstractions *Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom* with Tom White Artist and Researcher Victoria University of Wellington School of Design Cosponsored by Autolab and the CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) and held in conjunction with the DH Faire. Read more
06 Apr, 2020 Art, Tech & Culture POSTPONED: Notes on Recent Work of the Past Five Years with William Pope.L Artist, Chicago Presented by the Department of Art Practice Read more
24 Feb, 2020 Art, Tech & Culture In Search for My Robot: Emergent Media, Racialized Gender, and Creativity with Margaret Rhee Assistant Professor, SUNY Buffalo; Visiting Scholar, NYU Co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature Read more
27 Jan, 2020 Art, Tech & Culture Dancing with Robots: Expressivity in Natural and Artificial Systems with Amy LaViers Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
04 Nov, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics with Guy Hoffman Robotics Researcher, Cornell University Co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
21 Oct, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture Non-Human Art with Leonel Moura Artist, Lisbon Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR), and FLAD — the Luso-American Development Foundation. Read more
23 Sep, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture The Copper in my Cooch and Other Technologies with Marisa Morán Jahn Artist, Cambridge, MA and New York, NY Co-sponsored by the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series and the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Read more
09 Sep, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture Robots Are Creatures, Not Things with Madeline Gannon Artist / Roboticist, Pittsburgh, PA Co-sponsored by the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
17 Oct, 2017 History & Theory Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind with Erich Hörl and Yuk Hui Panel Discussion with Luciana Parisi, David Bates & Warren Sack with support from the Townsend Center and the Dean of Arts and Humanities Read more
12 Oct, 2017 History & Theory Datasense: Sensor Technology and the Mediation of Sentience with Natasha Schull Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Presented in partnership with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society Read more
25 Sep, 2017 Art, Tech & Culture World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech with Frank Foer National correspondent for The Atlantic and fellow at the New America Foundation. Presented in partnership with the Graduate School of Journalism Read more
07 Dec, 2016 Special Events Jacobs 2016 Winter Design Showcase Jacobs Institute opens its doors to showcase students' final projects! Read more
16 Nov, 2015 History & Theory Design, Geopolitics, and Planetary-Scale Computing with Benjamin Bratton, UCSD Professor and Design Theorist Read more
25 Apr, 2011 Art, Tech & Culture Pure Engineering – Decoupling Technical Innovation from Utility and Consumerism with Raffaello D’Andrea, an artist and Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich Read more
14 Oct, 2024 Ken Goldberg at CASE 2024 Check out the work Ken Goldberg presented at the 2024 International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering! Read more
21 Sep, 2024 BCNM Around the Web Summer 2024 Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Summer 2024! Read more
20 May, 2024 BCNM's Big Wins 2024 We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024! Read more
07 Apr, 2024 Announcing our Summer 2024 Research Award Recipients Congratulations to our 2024 Summer Research recipients from Geography, Music, Education, Architecture, East Asian Studies, Public Health, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and Film & Media. Read more
04 Apr, 2024 BCNM Around the Web Spring 24 Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Spring, 2024! Read more
30 Mar, 2024 Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2024 Check out the work Ken Goldberg is presenting at ICRA 2024! Read more
24 Feb, 2024 Ken Goldberg at NeurIPS Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 pre-proceedings (NeurIPS 2023) Read more
22 Dec, 2023 Optimal Arrangement and Rearrangement of Objects on Shelves to Minimize Robot Retrieval Cost Ken Goldberg in IEEE Transactions! Read more
27 Nov, 2023 Video now online! Jen Liu's The ghost in the machine is me. Missed the talk with Jen Liu about her multifaceted GHOST_WORLD project, which proposes an intrinsically paradoxical task: to represent electronics workers through the digital imaging technologies that are designed to erase them, bridging the distance between labor and consumer through location-based AR? A recording of the lecture has now been uploaded to YouTube. Read more
15 Oct, 2023 Julia Irwin on a History of Artificial Perception Summer research from Julia Irwin on "Patterning Recognition: A History of Artificial Perception." Read more
27 Jun, 2023 BCNM's Big Wins 2023 We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023! Read more
25 May, 2023 Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2023 Ken Goldberg is presenting at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)! Read more
02 Apr, 2023 Ken Goldberg on Creative Robots for Nautil.us Jeanne Carstensen spotlights Ken Goldberg's work on creative robots, the Kurzweil fallacy, and what it means to be human. Read more
23 Dec, 2022 Ken Goldberg and AutoLab Featured in IEOR Magazine The fastest laundry-folding robot and other advances in automation. Read more
01 Dec, 2022 BCNM Around the Web December Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this December! Read more
18 Aug, 2022 Lyman Report: Julia Irwin Julia's dissertation is titled "Patterning Recognition: A History of Automated Visual Perception." Read more
10 Aug, 2022 Ken Goldberg at CASE 2022 The 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) took place in in Chengdu, China and Mexico City, Mexico. Read more
10 Jun, 2022 BCNM's Big Wins 2022 We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022! Read more
12 Apr, 2022 Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2022 Check out these great papers from Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented at the International Conference on Robots and Automation 2022! Read more
01 Mar, 2022 Ken Goldberg on Simulating Polyculture Farming Check out Ken Goldberg's article on Simulating Polyculture Farming to Learn Automation Policies for Plant Diversity and Precision Irrigation! Read more
24 Feb, 2022 Ken Goldberg on Accelerating quadratic optimization with reinforcement learning Check out Ken Goldberg's paper on Neural Information Processing Systems! Read more
21 Aug, 2021 BCNM Around the Web August 2021 Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni around the web this August! Read more
19 Aug, 2021 Ken Goldberg's Autolab at CASE Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented a slew of new papers at the 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Read more
20 Jul, 2021 Ken Goldberg on Insights Robotics Ken Goldberg speaks on opportunities for robots in the e-commerce supply chain in an interview with RoboGlobal Insights. Read more
19 Jun, 2021 Ken Goldberg on Soft Robotics Podcast BCNM affiliate Ken Goldberg was recently featured on the Soft Robotics Podcast. Read more
15 Jun, 2021 Ken Goldberg and Team on Orienting Novel 3D Objects Ken Goldberg and team recently published a paper titled "Orienting Novel 3D Objects Using Self-Supervised Learning of Rotation Transforms." Check it out! Read more
11 Jun, 2021 Ken Goldberg's Autolab at ICRA 2021 Check out these great papers from Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented at the International Conference on Robots and Automation 2021! Read more
26 May, 2021 Ken Goldberg on AI and Robots in a Post Pandemic World Ken Goldberg recently spoke at IBM Think 2021, a conference focused on all things related to the cloud and artificial intelligence. Read more
17 Apr, 2021 BCNM Around the Web April 2021 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this April! Read more
21 Dec, 2020 BCNM Fall 2020: Events In Review We’re so thankful to everyone who tuned in for our events this past semester. Keep reading for a round-up of our events and speakers! Read more
01 Dec, 2020 Björn Hartmann on Opportunities and Challenges for Circuit Board Level Hardware Description Languages Björn Hartmann recently published a paper titled "Opportunities and Challenges for Circuit Board Level Hardware Description Languages." Read more
30 Nov, 2020 Ken Goldberg's AutoLab at ICRA 2020 Check out these great papers from Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented at the International Conference on Robots and Automation 2020. Read more
24 Nov, 2020 Ken Goldberg on AI, Automation, and Work in the Age of Anxiety Ken Golberg describes the role of artificial intelligence and automation technology in the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
14 Nov, 2020 ATC: Lawrence Lek Video Now Online Check out the fantastic conversation we had with Lawrence Lek on The Sinofuturist Trilogy. Read more
06 Nov, 2020 BCNM Around the Web November 2020 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this November! Read more
20 Aug, 2020 New Papers from Ken Goldberg at CASE 2020 A stunning seven papers were accepted at CASE 2020 from Ken Goldberg's lab. Read more
18 Aug, 2020 BCNM Around the Web August 2020 Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this August! Read more
08 Jul, 2020 Ken Goldberg on Robot Grasping on Marketplace The pandemic has increased demand to automate warehouses, but the technology isn’t quite there yet to improve conditions for, much less replace, human workers. Read more
21 Apr, 2020 Announcing Our 2020 Summer Research Fellows We are thrilled to share our 2020 Summer Research Fellows from Anthropology, Architecture, Art Practice, Music, and Rhetoric! Read more
16 Apr, 2020 BCNM Around the Web April 2020 Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in April 2020! Read more
12 Apr, 2020 BCNM at CHI 2020 CHI has been cancelled due to COVID-19, but let's celebrate the incredible work of our students, faculty, and alumni who were slated to present! Read more
11 Apr, 2020 Ken Goldberg and the Automated Polyculture Garden Ken Goldberg was recently featured in VentureBeat for his work with UC Berkeley's AUTOLAB in developing a polyculture garden. Read more
03 Apr, 2020 Ken Goldberg on COVID-19, Robots, and Us Ken Goldberg was invited to host an online discussion on "COVID-19, robots and us". Read more
13 Mar, 2020 Ken Goldberg on How AI Amplifies Human Competencies Ken Goldberg was interviewed on AI and machine learning for the Rotman School of Management's Winter 2020 magazine issue. Read more
12 Feb, 2020 Ken Goldberg at CES 2020 Ken Goldberg was a part of the "Robots for Good" conference track at CES 2020. Read more
16 Oct, 2019 BCNM around the Web October 2019 More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg and Koci Hernandez; and alumni Trevor Paglen, danah boyd, Jen Schradie, Tiffany Ng, Ritwik Banerji, Bo Ruberg, and Jane McGonigal. Read more
25 Sep, 2019 danah boyd Named EFF Barlow Recipient BCNM alum danah boyd was recognized as a 2019 EFF Barlow 'Trailblazing Technology Scholar' Read more
17 Aug, 2019 Ken Goldberg Chief Scientist of Ambidextrous Robotics Ambidextrous Robotics builds on DexNet, the patent-pending Dexterity Network developed by Goldberg and Mahler. Read more
12 Jul, 2019 William Morgan on Calculative Reason and its Reproduction William presented "Calculative Reason and its Reproduction" at the 2019 Association for Philosophy and Literature (APL) Conference in Klagenfurt, Austria. Read more
11 Jul, 2019 Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more
03 Jul, 2019 New Papers from Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2019 Ken Goldberg co-authored several papers presented at ICRA 2019. Read more
11 Apr, 2019 Announcing our Summer 2019 Research Award Recipients We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are completing, and are pleased to be able to provide summer funding to support their research initiatives. Read more
22 Mar, 2019 Ken Goldberg at ICRA-X: Robots and Art Program Ken Goldberg will be at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation this May. Read more
19 Mar, 2019 Ken Goldberg Quoted in Forbes on Amazon Push to Automation Ken Golberg's robotics expertise was consulted in a Forbes article about Amazon's attempt to optimize its warehouse robots. Read more
08 Mar, 2019 Ken Goldberg in Forbes on Brookings Institute Report Rich Blakes talks to Ken Goldberg about the Brookings Institute Report on how automation will impact various employment sectors. Read more
26 Feb, 2019 Ken Goldberg on AI & the Future of Work Goldberg is featured on the NewRetirement podcast in a brand new episode title, "AI, Automation and the Future of Work" Read more
12 Feb, 2019 Alum Stuart Geiger at Workshop on the Ethics and Policy Implications of Big Data This February 15th and 16th, this workship will by held in the University of California, San Diego. Read more
11 Jan, 2019 Ken Goldberg at the Blum Center Ken Goldberg visited the Blum Center to speak on the future of work and on human and AI interaction. Read more
03 Jan, 2019 Ken Goldberg in IEEE Transactions in Automation Guest Editorial Ken Goldberg and other IEEE luminaries call for greater openness around reproducible benchmarks. Read more
05 Nov, 2018 Andrew Atwood in Project Journal Andrew Atwood was featured in Issue 7 of Project Journal at Archinect Outpost. Read more
22 Oct, 2018 Ken Goldberg Visiting Speaker at SUNY Buffalo Art Ken Goldberg visited the University at Buffalo Department of Art as part of the Visiting Artist Speaker Series. Read more
13 Aug, 2018 The Daily Cal Features Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net The Dexterity-Network from AutoLab gets a well-deserved feature in the Daily Cal. Read more
11 Jul, 2018 Ken Goldberg to Keynote CRAV.ai The Collaborative Robotics, Advanced Vision, and Artificial Intelligence conference will be held October 24-25 in Santa Clara, CA. Read more
28 Jun, 2018 Ken Goldberg at CODAME 2018 This year's Art+Tech festival was themed #ARTOBOTS and featured Ken Goldberg as a speaker! Read more
28 May, 2018 Ken Goldberg at ICRA 2018 Ken Goldberg was a speaker at ICRA 2018's workshop on advances in robotic warehouse automation. Read more
27 May, 2018 Ken Goldberg & Robots Featured in NBC Bay Area News Ken Goldberg and his lab were interviewed by NBC Bay Area about the progress being made in robotics development at UC Berkeley. Read more
07 May, 2018 Ken Goldberg at the Executive Leadership Conference on Robots in Consumer Packaged Goods Ken Goldberg attended the annual Executive Leadership Conference to discuss Can Robots Really Handle Consumer Packaged Goods?. Read more
03 May, 2018 Ken Goldberg at Michigan School of Information Ken Goldberg was recently invited by the University of Michigan to give a talk on the campus about his previous work and research. Read more
19 Mar, 2018 Ken Goldberg at CITRIS Silicon Valley Ken Goldberg will be attending the CITRIS Silicon Valley Forum, a new monthly series from CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, on April 5. Read more
19 Mar, 2018 Trevor Paglen Named Artistic Fellow at AI Now Institute Trevor Paglen was named an artist fellow at AI Now Institute, tasked with supporting the institute's research in examining the social implications of artificial intelligence. Read more
16 Mar, 2018 Ken Goldberg on Open Source Stewart Platform We've collected Ken Goldberg and AutoLab's video and papers on their open-source Stewart platform design into one post. Read more
13 Mar, 2018 Goldberg at Industry of Things World USA 2018 Ken Goldberg gave the opening keynote at IoT World USA Conference! Read more
05 Mar, 2018 Ken Goldberg at TechCrunch Robotics May 11 Ken Goldberg will be a speaker in the lineup for TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics 2018 this coming May. Read more
06 Feb, 2018 Ken Goldberg and Dex-Net in Technology Review Ken Goldberg and Dex-Net 2.0 was featured in Technology Review's round up of 2017 robots. Read more
13 Nov, 2017 Revisited: HTNM Conference — Between the Digital and the Political Revisit the “Between Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of the Mind” symposium, which featured speakers including Professor David Bates, Dr. Yuk Hui, Luciana Parisi, and Warren Sack. Read more
08 Nov, 2017 Ken Goldberg on CBS Local on AI and the Workforce Ken Goldberg is quoted by CBS Local in discussing the impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce. Read more
03 Nov, 2017 Ken Goldberg and Team Published on BAIR Ken Goldberg and team published on BAIR about DART: Noise Injection for Robust Imitation Learning. Read more
03 Nov, 2017 5 Questions with Ken Goldberg Ken Goldberg sits down with the UCB Student Affairs to answer prospective students' questions. Read more
02 Nov, 2017 Update: Surgical Robotics with Ken Goldberg BAIR has published an article of updates to Ken Goldberg's project in Surgical Robotics. Read more
24 Oct, 2017 Ken Goldberg at Collaborative Robots and Advance Vision Conference Ken Goldberg speaks on the new wave in robot grasping at the Collaborative Robots and Advanced Vision Conference November 16th, 2017. Read more
19 Oct, 2017 Alum Stuart Geiger Published in Big Data & Society Stuart Geiger on the role of algorithmic systems in Wikipedian organizational culture in Big Data & Society. Read more
16 Oct, 2017 HTNM Revisited: Natasha Schüll From the NYU professor's talk, "Datasense," in which she discussed from her forthcoming book, "Keeping Track: Sensor Tehnology, Self-Regulation, and the Data-Driven Life." Presented in partnership with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society. Read more
03 Oct, 2017 Ken Goldberg Quoted in NYT on Warehouse Robots UC Berkeley professor Ken Goldberg is featured in a NYT article regarding his lab's phenomenal robotic work. Read more
03 Oct, 2017 Ken Goldberg & Automation Lab on RTVE Ken Goldberg and the Automation Lab make an appearance on RTVE's "El cazador de crebros," or "The Brain Hunter," to talk about artificial intelligence. Read more
16 Aug, 2017 Ken Goldberg Joins the Board of Robo Global The organization that defined the very first benchmark index for the robotics and automation market welcomes Goldberg to their team Read more
16 Aug, 2017 Ken Goldberg Quoted in the NYT on Autonomous Gliders Microsoft teaches gliders how to fly on their own; Prof. Goldberg brings insight to this NYT article Read more
01 Aug, 2017 Announcing the 2017-2018 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series From software arts to self-tracking technologies, cybernetics to techno-ecologies, we are thrilled to introduce the speakers in this year's History and Theory of New Media program. Read more
01 Aug, 2017 Ken Goldberg Quoted in NYT on Preparing Preschoolers for an Automated Economy Prof. Goldberg commented on the growing trend of emphasizing coding skills in young children's classrooms. Read more
28 Jul, 2017 Ken Goldberg at the Applied Innovation Exchange Ken Goldberg led a conversation on a benign robot future in which robots work together with humans at "What's Now: San Francisco" at the Applied Innovation Exchange. Read more
28 Jun, 2017 Ken Goldberg and Team Release Massive Dex-Net 2.0 Dataset! Article on Goldberg and team's Dex-Net 2.0 data set release in Spectrum IEEE! Read more
01 Jun, 2017 Ken Goldberg & Camille Crittenden at CITRIS Inclusive AI Symposium Goldberg and Crittenden were at the "Inclusive AI: Technology and Policy for a Diverse Urban Future" symposium. Read more
25 May, 2017 Ken Goldberg Chair at ICRA-X Public Forum Session Ken Goldberg, professor at BCNM, was chair at ICRA-X Public Forum's session "Frontiers of Robotics" as part of outreach to the general public at ICRA2017! Read more
25 May, 2017 Ken Goldberg Featured in Robotics Business Review Ken Goldberg featured in "Cloud Robotics Promises to Simplify Machine Tending" in Robotics Business Review Read more
24 May, 2017 Ken Goldberg and T-ASE Add Note to Practitioners Ken Goldberg and T-ASE's simplified second abstract was featured in an article for the IEEE RAS. Read more
16 May, 2017 Announcing Our 2017 Graduates We look forward to sharing their future endeavors! Read more
11 Apr, 2017 Ken Goldberg on Robot Grasping at Tempo Automation Ken Goldberg on integrating robots into industry at Tempo Automation Read more
13 Jan, 2017 Ken Goldberg on the Future of Work at the Mill Library On Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 6:30pm Read more
17 Nov, 2016 Ken Goldberg Named Chair of IEOR The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research has a new chairperson! Read more
24 Oct, 2016 Ken Goldberg at the Samsung CEO Summit The theme this year was "The Age of Insight and Learning" Read more
10 Oct, 2016 Ken Goldberg on A Century of Art & Technology in the Bay Area Goldberg published an article, A Century of Art and Technology in the Bay Area, on Medium Read more
28 Jun, 2016 Ken Goldberg's accepted papers at CASE 2016 Professor Ken Goldberg had multiple papers accepted the 12th Annual International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering Read more
04 Nov, 2015 Meet John Scott Scott explores online learning environments to increase geographic and cultural connections and build diverse communities Read more
12 Oct, 2015 Ken Goldberg at ISRR 2015 Conference Ken was a co-author on "Transition State Clustering: Unsupervised Surgical Trajectory Segmentation For Robot Learning " Read more
28 Oct, 2014 Ken Goldberg: Cloud Robotics and Next Gen Surgery Robots BCNM co-founder and director emeritus Ken Goldberg was recently interviewed by the NY Times for two separate pieces Read more
19 May, 2014 Cyberphysical Democracy: Online Platforms and Offline Action Follow Camille Crittenden on Twitter: [link no longer available] Read more
15 Apr, 2014 Robots and New Media: A Contested Concept A packed house greeted the first panelists for the Berkeley Center for New Media’s Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, 2014 Read more
03 Mar, 2014 Meet Tiffany Ng This month, hear how Designated Emphasis Ph.D. candidate Tiffany Ng explores urban spaces through the architecture of music. Read more
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Spring 2023
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Fall 2022
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Spring 2022
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Spring 2021
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Spring 2020
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions. Spring 2019