14 Apr, 2022
Art, Tech & Culture
George's Blues: An Investigation of George Washington Carver’s Legacy as an Artist and Cook
with Seitu Jones
Artist, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Presented in partnership the Department of Art Practice and co-sponsored by American Cultures. Read more
14 Mar, 2022
Art, Tech & Culture
with Margarita Kuleva
National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Rescheduled from Spring 2020
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, the Department of the History of Art, the Arts Research Center, and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
05 Apr, 2021
Art, Tech & Culture
with Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Artist, Dubai
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Arts Research Center, and the Department of Art Practice 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
25 Oct, 2020
Special Events
Crisis and Creativity: Virtual Artists in Residence at UC Berkeley South Asia Art Initiative
With Mithu Sen
Performs conceptual and interactive multi-format byproducts which include drawing, poetry, moving images, sculptures, installations, sound
And Brendan Fernandes
Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual arts Read more
21 Sep, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
Notes on the Role of the Artist when the world has always been on fire??
with Pope.L
Artist, Chicago
Presented by 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
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
29 Apr, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
Adam Savage
Mythbusters, CA
a conversation on the past and future of spacesuits with
Nicholas de Monchaux, Professor, UC Berkeley
In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One Read more
01 Apr, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
with Rhonda Holberton
Artist, Oakland
Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Read more
18 Mar, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
On Digital Colonialism and 'Other' Futures
with Morehshin Allahyari
Artist, New York
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Stanford University Read more
04 Mar, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor
with Nnedi Okorafor
Artist, Olympia Fields, IL
In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One,the Department of African American Studies, and the Department of English Read more
25 Feb, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
In and out of the Body and into the Machine
with Chico MacMurtrie
Artist, New York Read more
11 Feb, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
News of the Future and the Future of News
with Kevin Delaney
Editor, Quartz
In partnership with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Read more
19 Nov, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
RESCHEDULED: Daemons Tools Art Tech
Due to air quality issues, this talk is being rescheduled for September 23rd, 2019. Please check back soon for more information! Read more
29 Oct, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
The Good Anthropocene: Terraforming Earth
with Kim Stanley Robinson
Author, Davis, CA
In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One
Read more
15 Oct, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Kerry Tribe
Artist & Filmmaker, Los Angeles
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
08 Oct, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
The Networked Avant-garde
with Kelani Nichole
Director, The Current; Founder, TRANSFER
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
10 Sep, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Roxane Gay
Author, Indiana Read more
05 Oct, 2017
Commons Conversations
Reply All: Free Speech in the Age of Social Media
New media and modes of digital expression are transforming our experience of, and shaping conversations around free speech. Join us as faculty, students, and staff discuss this new landscape. Read more
05 Dec, 2016
Special Events
Reading Robot Poetry! or, How Robots Fall Out of Love
Celebrating the publication of alum Margaret Rhee's Radio Heart; or How Robots Fall Out of Love Read more
03 Feb, 2015
Special Events
Natural Frequencies: New Media Carillon Installation and Performance
A new media Carillon installation and performance in honor of the 100th Anniversary of UC Berkeley's Sather Tower (the Campanile) Read more
04 Apr, 2014
Special Events
A panel on our evolving relationship with AI, happening April 4th Read more
10 Dec, 2012
Special Events
We Witness: A Panel on Digital Video, Social Media, and Political Protest
A panel of leading video activists, filmmakers, + technology developers on the implications for human rights investigations, advocacy campaigns, and social justice Read more
14 Nov, 2012
Special Events
FutARism: The Possiblities of Augmented Reality in Art Making
with Amir Baradaran, Media and Performance Artist, New York Read more
16 Mar, 2011
Special Events
Crossing Boundaries: News, Technology, & Audiences
Speakers from across UC Berkeley departments on social media and journalism. Read the distinguished roster in full here. Read more
26 Aug, 2024
Announcing the 2024-25 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2024-25 season of our ATC lecture series, featuring Trevor Paglen, Alex Saum-Pascual, Damien McDuffie, and more! Read more
07 Jun, 2024
A class by Ken Goldberg and Lisa Wymore is featured in Berkeley Engineer! Read more
26 May, 2024
Self-Supervised Learning of Dynamic Planar Manipulation of Free-End Cables
New paper from Ken Goldberg and team! Read more
23 May, 2024
Ken Goldberg Co-Author in ICRA24 Best Paper
Congratulations to the authors of "Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X." Read more
20 May, 2024
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024! Read more
21 Apr, 2024
STITCH: Augmented Dexterity for Suture Throws Including Thread Coordination and Handoffs
A new paper from Ken Goldberg and team! Read more
19 Apr, 2024
Ken Goldberg and Catie Cuan's Breathless Reviewed in Forbes
Teaching Machines To Be Human, And Humans To Live With Machines, an article by Benjamin Wolff. 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
11 Mar, 2024
Mirage: Cross-Embodiment Zero-Shot Policy Transfer with Cross-Painting
New paper from BCNM faculty member Ken Goldberg. Read more
24 Feb, 2024
Ken Goldberg and Jacobi Solving Singularities
Jacobi Robotics was founded by a quartet of UC Berkeley robotics students, along with professor Ken Goldberg. Read more
24 Feb, 2024
This robot sews up a wound with six stitches all by itself. Read more
24 Feb, 2024
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 pre-proceedings (NeurIPS 2023) Read more
25 Jan, 2024
Group Anything with Radiance Fields Read more
15 Jan, 2024
Why we don't have robot butlers yet
Read more
28 Dec, 2023
Ken Goldberg Isn't Afraid of Artificial Intelligence
Roboticist and artist Ken Goldberg takes the temperature of the current AI moment. Read more
28 Dec, 2023
Robotics Q&A with Ken Goldberg in TechCrunch
Ken Goldberg talks the future of robots with Brian Heater. Read more
24 Dec, 2023
Ken Goldberg in The Robot Report Year in Review
On this episode of the Robot Report Podcast titled, "2023 year in review: GenAI, humanoids dominate robotics industry", editors Steve Crowe, Gene Demaitre, and Mike Oitzman sit down and review their favorite robotics news stories from 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
21 Dec, 2023
A Robot that Can Pick Your Clothes from the Floor?
Ken Goldberg has addressed "the teenage problem" with a cleaning machine robot! Read more
07 Dec, 2023
BCNM Around the Web Fall 2023
Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Fall 2023! Read more
07 Dec, 2023
Ken Goldberg Joins The House Fund
Ken Goldberg partners with The House Fund, potential $115M to prospective Berkeley AI startups!
Read more
04 Dec, 2023
Ken Goldberg at CORL 2023
Check out the new papers Ken Goldberg and team presented at CoRL 2023! Read more
10 Aug, 2023
BCNM Around the Web Summer 2023
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this Summer! Read more
26 Jul, 2023
Announcing the 2023-2024 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season of our ATC lecture series, featuring Jen Liu, Jesse Colin Jackson, Valeria Luiselli, and more! Read more
17 Jul, 2023
Ken Goldberg presented on Expanding Access to Robots for Education and Research in the workshop on lowering barriers for robotics research. Read more
16 Jul, 2023
Artificial Intelligence Meets Medical Robotics
Ken Goldberg co-authors a perspective essay on artificial intelligence and medical robotics for Science AI. Read more
27 Jun, 2023
We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023! Read more
26 Jun, 2023
Ken Goldberg on Generative AI
Pieter Abbeel and Ken Goldberg on generative AI applications Read more
13 Jun, 2023
Ken Goldberg Exhibiting Trees, Time and Technology
Trees, Time, and Technology: Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology 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
05 Apr, 2023
CoRL Papers Published in Proceedings of Machine Learning
Ken Goldberg has been included in the Conference on Robotic Learning proceedings. 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
30 Mar, 2023
Ken Goldberg on The Next Billion Cars
Ken Goldberg joins host Mark Pesce to discuss the future of autonomous vehicles. Read more
23 Dec, 2022
Ken Goldberg Discusses the Biggest Robotics Trends of 2022
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 Nov, 2022
Sim2Real & Optimist with Ken Goldberg
Read more
16 Nov, 2022
BCNM at the Bay Area Robotics Symposium
The 2022 Bay Area Robotics Symposium brings together roboticists from the Bay Area in an immersive program featuring BCNM professors. Read more
14 Nov, 2022
AmbiRobotics, Co-Founded by Ken Goldberg, Receives $32M
Read more
02 Nov, 2022
Ken Goldberg at CoRL 2022
Ken Goldberg is featured in the 6th Annual Conference on Robot Learning. Read more
19 Oct, 2022
Ken Goldberg at ISRR 2022
Ken Goldberg and team present at the 2022 International Symposium on Robotics Research. Read more
12 Oct, 2022
Image caption: Video still of Bruno Latour lecturing at UC Berkeley, Oct. 17, 2005 Read more
31 Aug, 2022
Ken Goldberg at IROS 2022
Ken Goldberg and team present four papers at the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)! Read more
12 Aug, 2022
BCNM Around the Web August 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this August! Read more
11 Aug, 2022
Ken Goldberg's Knot Untying Robots Featured in New Scientist
Matthew Sparkes features the work from Ken Goldberg's lab in "Robot unties knotted cables but can't pick them up off the floor" for the New Scientist. 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
22 Jul, 2022
Tiffany Ng Named Chair of Organ Department
Alum Tiffany Ng leads the Organ Department at the University of Michigan. Read more
20 Jul, 2022
Announcing the 2022-2023 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2022-2023 season for our ATC Lecture Series! Featuring Teddy Cruz and Fonna Foreman, and artsits Nettrice Gaskins and Osman Khan. Read more
18 Jul, 2022
Ken Goldberg and team won a Best Systems Paper Award for "Autonomously Untangling Long Cables" at Robotics Science and Systems 2022. Read more
17 Jul, 2022
Ken Goldberg at WAFR 2022
The 15th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics was held on June 22-24, 2022. Read more
29 Jun, 2022
Ken Goldberg is among the authors of this paper on how the cloud ecosystem, barely over fifteen years old, could evolve as it matures. Read more
21 Jun, 2022
FogROS brings robotic cloud computing to the Robot Operating System
Ken Goldberg and team published a new article featured in TechCrunch. Read more
13 Apr, 2022
BCNM Around the Web April 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this April 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
11 Mar, 2022
Sonya Katyal, Trevor Paglen, and Ken Goldberg in conversation with Kate Crawford
Sonya Katyal, Trevor Paglen, and Ken Goldberg discuss epistemology and politics in artificial intelligence with Tanner lecture recipient Kate Crawford. Read more
02 Mar, 2022
BCNM Around the Web March 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this March! 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
28 Feb, 2022
Ken Goldberg in the International Journal of Robotics Research
Ken Goldberg's work was recently featured in the International Journal of Robotics Research. Read more
25 Feb, 2022
Ken Goldberg on Comparison of Novel Shielded Nasopharynx Applicator Designs for Intracavitary Brachytherapy
Ken Goldberg applies new designs to improve patient outcomes. 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
15 Feb, 2022
Assisting Polyculture Farming in Africa with Ken Goldberg
Check out Ken Goldberg's latest publication in IEEE Africon! Read more
10 Feb, 2022
Ken Goldberg at CoRL 2021
Ken Goldberg and team present "Dex-NeRF: Using a Neural Radiance Field to Grasp Transparent Objects" at the Conference on Robotic Learning. Read more
09 Feb, 2022
Mechanical Search on Shelves Using a Novel "Bluction" Tool
A new paper from Ken Goldberg and team. Read more
26 Jan, 2022
2022 Robotics Predictions with Ken Goldberg
The Robot Report shares robotics predictions from industry experts, including our own Ken Goldberg. Read more
03 Jan, 2022
Offline Meta-RL for Safe Adaptation and Fault Tolerance
Ken Goldberg and team publish a new paper on Offline Meta-RL for Safe Adaptation and Fault Tolerance. Read more
29 Dec, 2021
Ken Goldberg on The Golem & AI
Ken Goldberg discusses artificial intelligence in relation to the classic film, The Golem. Read more
26 Dec, 2021
New Paper on Learning Efficient Grasping Sets
Ken Goldberg's lab publishes "LEGS: Learning Efficient Grasping Sets for Exploratory Grasping." Read more
13 Dec, 2021
Ken Goldberg's Real2Sim Featured on TechXplore
Ingrid Fadelli writes "Real2sim2real: A self-supervised learning technique applied to planar robot casting" featuring work by Ken Goldberg. Read more
11 Dec, 2021
Ken Goldberg Featured in the San Francisco Examiner
Veronica Irwin introduces the Berkeley professor who’s helping robots get a grip. Read more
09 Dec, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Grasping in Science News for Students
"Easy for you, tough for a robot" spotlights the research of Ken Goldberg and team. Read more
08 Dec, 2021
BCNM Around the Web November 2021
Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web! Read more
27 Oct, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Marketplace on Ambi Robotics
Marketplace spoke with BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg about Ambi Robotics, which he co-founded. Read more
14 Oct, 2021
BCNM Around the Web October 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! Read more
27 Sep, 2021
Ken Goldberg's Ambi Robotics Raises $26 Million
Professor Ken Goldberg's robotics startup, Ambi Robotics, has secured $26 million in funding. Read more
04 Sep, 2021
Ken Goldberg at IROS 2021
Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2021. Read more
29 Aug, 2021
Engineering and Art: An interview with Ken Goldberg
Read more
26 Aug, 2021
Ken Goldberg at ICML 2021
Check out the amazing work from Ken Goldberg and team at the International Conference on Machine Learning 2021! Read more
23 Aug, 2021
Ken Goldberg and a Roadmap for US Robotics
Ken Goldberg co-authored the recently published "A Roadmap for US Robotics - From Internet to Robotics 2020 Edition". 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
14 Aug, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Latent Space Safe Sets for Long-Horizon Visuomotor Control of Iterative Tasks
Ken Goldberg and his colleagues present Latent Space Safe Sets, a promising strategy for safe learning in high-dimensional state spaces. Read more
30 Jul, 2021
Announcing the 2021-2022 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
We are excited to announce the 2021-2022 season for the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium! Read more
23 Jul, 2021
BCNM Around the Web July 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this July! Read more
22 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg Co-Author on Optimization for Imitation Learning
Ken Goldberg co-authored a paper with Zaynah Javed, Daniel S. Brown, Satvik Sharma, Jerry Zhu, Ashwin Balakrishna, Marek Petrik, and Anca D. Dragan on Policy Gradient Bayesian Robust Optimization for Imitation Learning. Read more
20 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg's AmbiRobotics Receives Robotic Business Review Innovation Award
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
10 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Robots and Creativity
Ken Goldberg speaks on creativity in artificial intelligence in Nautilus' Robots Can't Dance. Read more
05 Jul, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Grasping and Picking Winners
Ken Goldberg describes the complicated technology that goes into robotic grasping mechanics in COSMOS' new article. Read more
26 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg & the CDL Reading Group on Klara and the Sun
Ken Goldberg joins Geordie Rose and the CDL Reading Group to discuss the complexities of human-like grasping in robotics. Read more
23 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Art Robot Death
Ken Goldberg was recently interviewed by the Art Robot Death podcast. Check it out! 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
11 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Getting a Grip on Reality
Ken Goldberg recently published the editorial for Science Robotics. Read more
10 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg and the Surging Opportunity for Robotic Automation
Read more
04 Jun, 2021
Ken Goldberg on AmbiRobotics on the Robot Report
BCNM's Ken Goldberg features on The Robot Report Podcast to give the inside scoop on robotics and automation and intelligent systems at Ambi Robotics. 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
08 May, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Ambi Robotics on the Robot Report
Ken Goldberg recently featured on Episode 41 of The Robot Report Podcast to talk about his team's work in powering Ambi Robotics' robots. Read more
08 May, 2021
Ken Goldberg's Ambi Robotics Emerges from Stealth
Read more
26 Apr, 2021
Cool Tools with Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg was recently interviewed on the Cool Tools podcast to discuss cool gadgets he has around his house. Check it out! Read more
20 Apr, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Other Intelligence
Ken Goldberg recently spoke at the second session of the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Spring 2021 Conference. Check it out! 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
12 Apr, 2021
Ken Goldberg in WAFR 2020 Proceedings
Ken Goldberg's articles were recently featured in the WAFR 2020 Proceedings. Read more
08 Apr, 2021
Ken Goldberg on the New Wave of Robotic Grasping
UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ken Goldberg recently sat down to talk about the future of robotics through the University of Toronto Robotics Institute Seminar Series. Read more
03 Apr, 2021
Ken Goldberg in Conversation with Cade Metz of the NYT
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09 Mar, 2021
"What Can a Robot Do?" With Ken Goldberg
Professor Ken Goldberg recently delved into the connections between nature and technology in a Nero Magazine interview. Read more
22 Feb, 2021
Ken Goldberg on Medical Design
Ken Goldberg recently spoke with Medical Design and Outsourcing on artifical intelligence and surgical robots. Read more
01 Feb, 2021
Six Books About Robots & AI from Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg recently posted his recommendations for six book on artificial intelligence and robots. Check them out! Read more
29 Jan, 2021
BCNM Around the Web January 2021
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this January! Read more
24 Jan, 2021
Ken Goldberg Awarded Toyota Research Institute Grant
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22 Dec, 2020
Video Now Out on How To Train Your Robot
Read more
10 Dec, 2020
Ken Goldberg Publishes on Semantic and Geometric Modeling
Ken Goldberg recently published a paper titled "Semantic and Geometric Modeling with Neural Message Passing in 3D Scene Graphs for Hierarchical Mechanical Search."
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
30 Nov, 2020
BCNM Around the Web December
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this December! 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
24 Nov, 2020
Grasping Research by Ken Goldberg Featured in DailyCal
Jeffrey Ichnowski, Yahav Avigal, Vishal Satish, and Ken Goldberg published an important paper that could help companies create safer work environments. Read more
24 Nov, 2020
Ken Goldberg at BARS 2020
Ken Goldberg recently spoke about his research at the 2020 Bay Area Robotics Symposium. Read more
21 Nov, 2020
Ken Goldberg's Deep Learning Featured in Science Robotics
Read more
17 Nov, 2020
Ken Goldberg's work was recently presented at the 2020 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). 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
15 Oct, 2020
Ken Goldberg at IROS 2020
Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2020. Read more
01 Oct, 2020
Ken Goldberg and Tata Communications on How AI Can Diversify Human Thinking
Ken Goldberg worked on a global study with Tata Communications, looking at the potential impact of AI on human thinking. Read more
30 Sep, 2020
Ken Goldberg on Alpha Garden at Techfest Bombay
Ken Goldberg recently presented his work on Alpha Garden at Techfest Bombay! Read more
29 Sep, 2020
BCNM Around the Web October 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! Read more
24 Sep, 2020
Ken Goldberg Builds Go-Vote Network
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10 Sep, 2020
BCNM Around the Web September 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this September! Read more
29 Aug, 2020
Ken Goldberg on the Uncanny Valley on Double Talk
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
10 Aug, 2020
Announcing the 2020-2021 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season
Image provided by Lawrence Lek. Read more
05 Aug, 2020
Watch Ken Goldberg in Sim2Real Debates
Ken Goldberg was invited to a workshop to debate with other well-known researchers on the impact of Sim2Real on robotics Read more
23 Jul, 2020
Ken Goldberg on Society, Robots, & Us Panel
Hear Ken Goldberg on a panel discussing intersections between robotics and socio-technical issues. Read more
18 Jul, 2020
Ken Goldberg's Lab Teaches Robots to Sew Sutures
Look forward to robotic surgeon assistants! Read more
17 Jul, 2020
BCNM Around the Web July 2020
Check out the awesome presentations and features of our faculty, student, and alumni work across the web this past July! 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
05 Jul, 2020
Ken Goldberg on How Roboticists Can Help with COVID 19
You can now watch all ICRA 2020 plenary keynotes and panels online! Read more
26 Jun, 2020
Ken Goldberg on robotic-assisted healthcare in COVID-19
Read more
17 Jun, 2020
BCNM Around the Web June 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussions around the work of our faculty and alumni in June 2020! Read more
14 May, 2020
BCNM Around the Web May 2020
Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in May 2020! Read more
30 Apr, 2020
Ken Goldberg on Combating COVID-19 in Science Magazine
Ken Goldberg recently wrote about combating COVID-19 with robotics in Science Magazine. 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
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 and Blooma Goldberg Publish How to Train Your Robot
Ken Goldberg, a UC Berkeley professor of robotics, his 10-year-old daughter Blooma, and science communicator Ashley Chase wrote a delightful children's book called How to Train Your Robot! 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
03 Apr, 2020
New Paper on Multi-Task Fabric Manipulation
Ken Goldberg was part of the team to publish a new paper "VisuoSpatial Foresight for Multi-Step, Multi-Task Fabric Manipulation". Read more
03 Apr, 2020
Ken Goldberg on Third Wave of Machine Learning
Listen to Ken Goldberg talk about robotic learning with Sam Charrington on the TWIML AI Podcast! 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
10 Mar, 2020
BCNM Around the Web March 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our students, faculty, and alumni in March 2020! Read more
04 Mar, 2020
Ken Goldberg & Abigail De Kosnik at TechCrunch
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24 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg in The Question of Intelligence
Ken Goldberg's robotic art project, "AlphaGarden Collective," is currently featured in The Question of Intelligence exhbition. Read more
12 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg was a part of the "Robots for Good" conference track at CES 2020. Read more
05 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg on AI in Pew Research
Ken Goldberg featured in report from Pew Research Center on Experts Optimistic About the Next 50 Years of Digital Life Read more
05 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg Keynotes Healthcare Robotics Forum
Ken Goldberg was a keynote speaker at the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum 2019 in Santa Clara. Read more
27 Jan, 2020
Ken Goldberg at California Future of Work Commission
Ken Goldberg attended the California Future of Work Commission's October 2019 meeting. Read more
13 Jan, 2020
BCNM Around the Web January 2020
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni in January 2020! Read more
31 Dec, 2019
Ken Goldberg Publishes on Fabric Smoothing Policies
Ken co-published on "Deep Imitation Learning of Sequential Fabric Smoothing Policies" Read more
20 Dec, 2019
BCNM Around the Web December 2019
Check out the amazing talks and discussion around the work of our faculty, students, and alumni! Read more
16 Dec, 2019
Ken Goldberg Publishes on Deep Learning Transfer
Hate making your bed? This new bed finds a fun new robotic solution! Read more
02 Nov, 2019
BCNM Around the Web November 2019
More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg, Alex Saum, Claudia von Vacano and Jacob Gaboury; and alumni Trevor Paglen, Bo Ruberg, Alenda Chang and Jen Schradie. Read more
18 Oct, 2019
Ken Goldberg and AUTOLab in RoboGlobal
Goldberg writes about deep learing and depth sensing on RoboGlobal. 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
13 Sep, 2019
Ken Goldberg: Recycling with Robots
Students at Berkeley worked artist and robotics professor Ken Goldberg to experiment innovative ways of using robotics for recycling. Read more
01 Sep, 2019
BCNM around the Web September 2019
More in the media from faculty Abigail De Kosnik, Nicholas de Monchaux, Ken Goldberg, and Tom McEnaney; and alumni Jenni Higgs, Andrea Horbinski, Jane McGonigal, Trevor Paglen, Ritwik Banerji and Jen Schradie. 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
13 Jul, 2019
Alum Tiffany Ng Reviews The Noisy Renaissance
The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life by Niall Atkinson discusses the history of tower bells. Read more
11 Jul, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
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11 Jul, 2019
BCNM presented their latest research at the CM Designing Interactive Systems 2019 conference on Contesting Borders and Intersections. Read more
08 Jul, 2019
New Co-Authored Paper Deep Model Predictive Control by Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg contributed to "Extending Deep Model Predictive Control with Safety Augmented Value Estimation from Demonstrations." Read more
05 Jul, 2019
Ken Goldberg Interview in Robotics Business Review
Working at the intersection of art, robotics, and social media, Ken shares his thoughts on making robots less clumsy when grabbing objects. 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
24 Jun, 2019
BCNM around the Web July 2019
Ken Goldberg at BrainBar, on home robots and the relationship between robots and retirement. Nicholas de Monchaux on the moon suit at the Santa Fe Institute. Alum Bo Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer in Real Life. Alum Jane McGonigal on the gamification of the warehouse. Alum Trevor Paglen on Our Privacy Mess and at Art Basel. Alum Jen Schradie at the Microworks Platform Conference. Read more
23 Jun, 2019
BCNM at Creativity and Cognition 2019
BCNM students faculty and alumni put up a strong showing at ACM's Creativity and Cognition 2019 conference! Read more
21 Jun, 2019
Alum Tiffany Ng Interviewed in Sounds from the Spires
Listen to this podcast on how Tiffany uses her career to lift up diverse composers. Read more
09 Jun, 2019
Ken Goldberg's TechCrunch Video Now Online
Ken spoke to Michael Jordan on Artificial Intelligence: Minds, Economies and Systems that Learn. Read more
30 May, 2019
Ken Goldberg Part of Team Introducing Robotics to Water Conservation in Farming
The UC Merced led team Read more
27 May, 2019
Ken Goldberg Co-Chairing AI & Inclusivity Signature Initiative
The Initiative seeks to work on systems for AI that integrate data, algorithms, context, and human values. Read more
25 Apr, 2019
Ken Goldberg at Financial Times Digital Surgery Summit
Goldberg presented at the 2019 The Financial Times Digital Surgery Summit. Read more
23 Apr, 2019
Machine Learning in Robotics Highlighted in NYT with Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg shares his insights into machine learning in the New York Times. 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
21 Mar, 2019
Ken Goldberg at TechCrunch Robotics
Ken Goldberg will be co-hosting a talk with UC Berkeley's Michael Jordan at TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics & AI. Read more
21 Mar, 2019
Ken Goldberg on Ethics in AI
The New York Times hosted the New Work Summit. Read more about the recommendations Ken Goldberg and other experts made regarding the ethics of artificial intelligence.
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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
15 Mar, 2019
You can now view Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net 4.0 in action online. Read more
15 Mar, 2019
Ken Goldberg in Back to the Sandbox
Goldberg contributed an article to Back to the Sandbox: Art and Radical Pedagogy Read more
09 Mar, 2019
DexNet 4.0 in the DailyCal
The DailyCal features Ken Goldberg and team's DexNet 4.0 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
04 Mar, 2019
Ken Goldberg's DexNet 4.0 in Axios
"Berkeley's two-armed robot hints at a new future for warehouses" writes Kaveh Waddell for Axios. Read more
28 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg's Dex Net 4.0 in Forbes
Goldberg's work is featured in the Forbe's article, "Getting a Better Grip on Reality, Robots Poised for Wider Role on Assembly Lines" Read more
26 Feb, 2019
DexNet 4.0 in IEEE Spectrum
The latest version of Dex-Net is featured in an article in IEEE Spectrum. 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
25 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg to attend Amazon's re:MARS Read more
23 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg in MIT Sloan Webinar on AI
Ken Goldberg joins Ally MacDonald to discuss how AI and humans can work together. Read more
21 Feb, 2019
Dex-Net 4.0 in TechCrunch
TechCrunch highlights a new suite of robots pushing current boundaries on agility. Read more
18 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg on Robots in Nature Machine Intelligence
Ken Goldberg reflects on how four exciting sub-fields of robotics — co-robotics, human–robot interaction, deep, learning and cloud robotics — accelerate a renewed trend toward robots working safely and constructively with humans. Read more
07 Feb, 2019
Ken Goldberg SEAS Seminar at Harvard
Ken Goldberg gave a Special Robotics Seminar for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard Read more
30 Jan, 2019
BCNM at San Francisco's Night of Ideas
BCNM faculty Nicholas de Monchaux, Shannon Jackson and Ken Goldberg, along with DE student Malika Imhotep participated in San Francisco's Night of Ideas. Read more
28 Jan, 2019
Ken Goldberg in Bloomberg Review
Goldberg was quoted in an article on the development of robotic stunts performed at Disney theme parks. Read more
11 Jan, 2019
Ken Goldberg at WAFR 2018
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
03 Jan, 2019
New Post on Depth Sensing from BAIR
Daniel Seita, Jeff Mahler, Mike Danielczuk, Matthew Matl, and Ken Goldberg shared their research on depth sensing in Drilling Down on Depth Sensing and Deep Learning. Read more
31 Dec, 2018
Ken Goldberg at the Lawrence Berkeley Hall of Science on Robot & Frank
Ken Goldberg discussed how Robot and Frank has inspired him at the Lawrence Berkeley Hall of Science Film Festival. Read more
19 Dec, 2018
Ken Goldberg at Robotics at Stanford Seminar
Ken Goldberg was one of the guest speakers at a weekly robotics seminar held at Stanford. Read more
28 Nov, 2018
Ken Goldberg at Cosmo Caixa
Ken Goldberg was featured as a robotics expert in a debate which examined the future of collaborative robots and the transformation of future work environments. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Ken Goldberg in Forbes on The Workforce
Forbes magazine featured Ken Goldberg and his work and study regarding the dependence of AI on human workers, and vice versa. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Ken Goldberg at Bay Area Robotics Symposium 2018
Ken Goldberg was a faculty speaker at BARS 2018, the Bay Area Robotics Symposium held at Stanford University. Read more
26 Nov, 2018
Ken Goldberg on the Uncanny Valley in Pokemon: Detective Pikachu
Ken Goldberg comments on the realistic features in Warner Bros.' new live-action Pokemon movie in The Huffington Post. Read more
07 Nov, 2018
Ken Goldberg in the NYT's "What Comes After the Roomba?"
Ken Goldberg and his group at Berkeley are currently research and testing the capcities of robots that can - possibly - clean a whole house. Read more
31 Oct, 2018
Ken Goldberg in 5 Takeaways from TechCrunch Disrupt
Ken Goldberg's conversation around bias in AI was one of the key takeaways from TechCrunch's Disrupt SF conference.
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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
19 Oct, 2018
Ken Goldberg Exhibited in Mystic Detectives
Ken Goldberg features in a surrealism exhibit at the Samek Art Museum. Read more
15 Oct, 2018
Ken Goldberg Interview in Robotics Business Review
Ken Goldberg was interviewed in the Robotics Business Review about robot grasping. Read more
01 Oct, 2018
Updated: Ken Goldberg at RoboBusiness 2018
BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg is the keynote speaker Day 2 of RoboBusiness 2018. Read more
01 Oct, 2018
Ken Goldberg and AI Study by Tata Communications in the Press
Study from consulting firm Tata Communications on AI, co-authored by Ken Goldberg, covered in the press. Read more
24 Sep, 2018
Ken Goldberg at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018
BCNM professor Ken Goldberg, UCOT's Chris Ategeka and Google AI's Timnit Gebru presented "Will AI Diversify Human Thinking or Replace It" at TechCrunch's Disrupt SF 2018. Read more
17 Sep, 2018
Ken Goldberg Interview in the Sloan Review
Ken Goldberg talks about mutually beneficial partnerships between AI and humans in an interview for MIT Sloan Management Review's Fall 2018 issue. Read more
22 Aug, 2018
Ken Goldberg on Learning to Optimize Join Queries with Deep Reinforcement Learning
A great paper featured on Assert on Arxiv! Read more
21 Aug, 2018
Announcing the Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
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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
07 Aug, 2018
Ken Goldberg's Dex Net in Video on New York Times
The New York Times features robotic videos in "How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can." Read more
31 Jul, 2018
Ken Goldberg on Autodesk's Lego-Building Robot
Ken Goldberg weighs in on Autodesk's new Lego-building robot on Fast Company! Read more
26 Jul, 2018
Ken Goldberg on ABC News on Robots as the Future of AI
"Why is Facebook keen on robots? It's just the future of AI," writes Ryan Nakashima. Read more
16 Jul, 2018
Help Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net Improve!
Wired magazine shares how we can enhance robots' ability to grasp through submitting object designs to Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net. Read more
13 Jul, 2018
Ken Goldberg at RSS Workshop
The theme was "New Benchmarks, Metrics, and Competitions for Robotic Learning." 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
27 Jun, 2018
Ken Goldberg at Science on the Screen
Join Ken Goldberg on June 27th for a screening of Operator, followed by a discussion on the technologies presented in the film. Read more
13 Jun, 2018
Ken Goldberg in the Stanford Social Innovation Review
Ken Goldberg's latest research on the evaluation systems used in online shopping is featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. 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
28 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg on TechCrunch Robotics at Berkeley in CGTN America
Ken Goldberg, who was a keynote speaker at TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics, was featured on America CGTN. Read more
27 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg Published in The Wall Street Journal on The Robot-Human Alliance
Ken Goldberg contributed a commentary piece on human-machine collaboration to The Wall Street Journal. Read more
27 May, 2018
Robotics TechCrunch Videos Now Available
For TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics, BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg discussed the “New Wave” in robot grasping for e-commerce warehouse order fulfillment. 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
17 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net Research Spotlighted in Nature
Robots are slowing becoming master of dexterity, and Ken Goldberg is a leading engineer in the field. Read more
08 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg Receives Faculty Award for Research in the Public Interest
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08 May, 2018
Ken Goldberg at UTS, Australia
Ken Goldberg visited the UTS in Australia to discuss the boundaries between alive and live-like. 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
30 Apr, 2018
Ken Goldberg Quoted in Wired on Robot Manipulation
Ken Goldberg was quoted in "A Robot Does the Impossible: Assembling an Ikea Chair Without Having a Meltdown" in Wired. Read more
16 Apr, 2018
New Ken Goldberg Dex-Net Video Online
A video of Ken Goldberg's Dex-Net 4.0 is now online, featured in publications such as the MIT Technology Review and Mashable. Read more
11 Apr, 2018
Ken Goldberg at Em Tech Digital 2018
Ken Goldberg delivered a presentation at this year's EmTech Digital at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. Read more
20 Mar, 2018
Ken Goldberg on Driverless Cars
Ken Goldberg was quoted in NY Times article on Driverless Cars. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Ken Goldberg at Beyond the Uncanny Valley
Ken Goldberg gave a lounge lecture, "Beyond the Uncanny Valley of Dolls," at the Hearst Museum. 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
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
06 Mar, 2018
Goldberg and da Vinci Robot in Wired
Ken Goldberg and the da Vinci robot's surgical potential was featured in Wired. 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.
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20 Feb, 2018
Ken Goldberg Included in Oxford's AI in a Week
Goldberg is included in the content on 'AI in a Week,' a crash-course on AI launched by Oxford Insights Read more
06 Feb, 2018
Ken Goldberg on Robot Renaissance in Wired
Goldberg was quoted in "Your Online Shopping Habit is Fueling a Robotics Renaissance" in Wired. 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
06 Feb, 2018
Ken Goldberg and the Multiplicity in RIA Robotics Online
Ken Goldberg featured on article on the multiplicity in Robotics Industries Association: Robotics Online. Read more
02 Feb, 2018
2017 Conference on Robotic Learning CoChaired by Ken Goldberg Now Online
Video from the conference, co-organized by Ken Goldberg, are now online Read more
02 Feb, 2018
Ken Goldberg on Multiplicity in Wired
Goldberg was featured in "Forget the Robot Singularity Apocalypse. Let's Talk about the Multiplicity" in Wired, on the rise of robot-human multiplicity. Read more
30 Jan, 2018
Ken Goldberg at the Culture of the Future in Moscow
Ken Goldberg participated in arts 'laboratory' at NCCA, Moscow Read more
24 Jan, 2018
Goldberg Demystifying the Science in WALL-E
Prof. Ken Goldberg will demystify the science in WALL-E on Feb. 10th with JCCCSF. Read more
11 Jan, 2018
Ken Goldberg at IF GeekPark
Ken Goldberg will be asking "Are Collaborative Cloud Robotics a Threat...or an Opportunity?" at IF GeekPark in Beijing on January 20, 2018. Read more
05 Dec, 2017
Ken Goldberg Quoted on Kuri and Home Robotics in Wired
BCNM's Ken Goldberg was quoted in Wired on robotic help in the home. Read more
05 Dec, 2017
Ken Goldberg on The Next Billion Seconds
Ken Goldberg was featured on the podcast, The Next Ten Billion Seconds. Read more
28 Nov, 2017
Ken Goldberg in A Berkeley View of Systems Challenges for AI
Ken Goldberg collaborated with 16 other Berkeley researchers in composing a paper on their perspectives of systems challenges for AI. Read more
14 Nov, 2017
Ken Goldberg at the NRI PI Meeting
Ken Goldberg to present "Scalable Collaborative Human-Robot Learning" at the National Robotics Initiative PI meeting.
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13 Nov, 2017
Ken Goldberg at the Bay Area Robotics Symposium 2017
Ken Goldberg will speak at the Bay Area Robotics Symposium 2017 on Friday, November 17. 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
08 Nov, 2017
Ken Goldberg on RoBhat Labs in Daily Cal
Ken Goldberg is quoted in a Daily Cal article about RoBhat Labs and their latest Google Chrome extension release, Botcheck.me. 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
Berkeley's DeepDrive Releases 36,000 Nexar Research Videos
Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD) and Nexar announce the release of videos and images for further research. 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
31 Oct, 2017
Eric Paulos & Ken Goldberg Exhibiting at The Luggage Store
Paulos and Goldberg are two of the many participating artists that will be featured at the "Illegal" exhibition special event at the Luggage Store Gallery. 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
17 Oct, 2017
Ken Goldberg at TedX Oakland
Ken Goldberg will present at the TedX Oakland 2017 conference on Sunday October 22nd! Read more
10 Oct, 2017
Ken Goldberg on Robot Multiplicity
BCNM faculty member Ken Goldberg was a special guest on the podcast, "Expanding Minds," where he talked about robot multiplicity and various other topics. Read more
10 Oct, 2017
Ken Goldberg Quoted in Bloomberg on Anthropomorphized AI
Goldberg gives his opinion on Mark Sagar's creation "BabyX", a robotic baby that is terrifyingly lifelike. 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
18 Sep, 2017
Free Speech on Free Speech: An Open Dialogue
How should university campuses facilitate free speech when there is the potential for violence?
An opinion lab presented in partnership with Reply All: Free Speech in the Age of Social Media Symposium Read more
14 Sep, 2017
UC Berkeley at Conference on Robotic Learning
BCNM co-founder Ken Goldberg co-authored 3 research papers that will be presented at the first annual Conference of Robotic Learning. Read more
23 Aug, 2017
Announcing the 2017-2018 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
From new journalism to virtual reality, telepresence to designing brands, this year's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium packs a punch! 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
02 Aug, 2017
Ken Goldberg at Autodesk Design Night
Goldberg's research project on cloud-connected robots discussed at the Autodesk Gallery in downtown SF! 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
19 Jul, 2017
DexNet Collaboration with the Siemens Institute
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18 Jul, 2017
Ken Goldberg at MIT Robotics Conference
The professor of Robotics, Automation, and New Media spent time at MIT last week for a conference on robots. Read more
18 Jul, 2017
Ken Goldberg's WSJ Article Quoted in Forbes
Forbes draws from an article Professor Goldberg published earlier last month. 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
15 Jun, 2017
Ken Goldberg in the Wall Street Journal
Goldberg recently published an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on growing human-robotic partnerships. 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
01 Jun, 2017
Ken Goldberg at SAIL-Toyota Seminar Series at Stanford
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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
08 May, 2017
Ken Goldberg on Our Automated Future on NPR
Ken Goldberg was featured on NPR discussing robots and our automated future Read more
06 May, 2017
Ken Goldberg on Cloud Robotics with Living MacTavish
Will a robot take your job? Ken Goldberg on cloud robotics with Living MacTavish 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
05 Apr, 2017
Ken Goldberg in MIT Technology Review
Goldberg was featured in an article by MIT's Technology Review on robot learning and human tele-operation of machines. Read more
04 Apr, 2017
Ken Goldberg Lecture at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology's (BCLT) 6th annual Privacy Law Forum featured BCNM's Ken Goldberg as a Keynote speaker. Read more
27 Feb, 2017
Ken Goldberg Receives Google Research Grant
The 2016 Google Research Machine Learning and Data Mining Award goes to a BCNM faculty! Read more
17 Feb, 2017
Video Now Online: Ken Goldberg at WAFR
Check out Ken Goldberg's Chair Remarks at WAFR 2016 and other work by UC Berkeley students and faculty! Read more
30 Jan, 2017
Robotics Manufacturing Consortium Awarded Department of Defense Funding
These awardees received an astounding $254 million in Department of Defense funding! Read about this incredible project here Read more
23 Jan, 2017
Ken Goldberg’s Letter to the Editor
Ken Goldberg's letter to the editor was published in the New York Times on the supposed perils of AI Read more
23 Jan, 2017
Cinemagillah at the National Museum of Jewish History
A participatory art project by BCNM prof. Ken Goldberg and his wife, filmmaker Tiffany Shlain Read more
19 Jan, 2017
Ken Goldberg on Saving Water in Agriculture with Robots on UC Merced News
An article titled "Robots and People Working Together to Save Water and Enhance Agriculture" Read more
19 Jan, 2017
Ken Goldberg featured in Fast Company
The BCNM professor and his research in Dex-Net was recently featured in the article "Why It's so Hard for Robots to Get a Grip" Read more
18 Jan, 2017
Ken Goldberg at the 12th Annual Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
UC Berkeley students and faculty attended the 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) 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
12 Dec, 2016
Take Note: New Robot Conference Chaired by Ken Goldberg
We're excited to see this new conference on Robotic Learning co-chaired by Ken Goldberg! Read more
12 Dec, 2016
Ken Goldberg at the 17th Annual Stanford-Berkeley Patent Law Conference
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06 Dec, 2016
Revisited: "Reading Robot Poetry!"
We revisit alum Margaret Rhee's reading from her new published collection Read more
17 Nov, 2016
Ken Goldberg Named Chair of IEOR
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research has a new chairperson! Read more
14 Nov, 2016
We're excited to see AMPLab transform into RISELab, which focuses on real-time secure decision stacks! 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
12 Sep, 2016
Announcing the 2016-2017 Season of the Art, Technology & Culture Colloquium
This year, our lectures are organized around the theme of "Digital Immersion." Read the full line-up here. Read more
01 Sep, 2016
Ken Goldberg at International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
Goldberg gave an address at the plenary session on August 30, entitled "Multiplicity: What Robots and AI Can Teach Us about Being Human" Read more
30 Aug, 2016
Ken Goldberg on Steve Johnson's "Wonderland" Podcast
The podcast "Wonderland with Steve Johnson", recently featured BCNM's Ken Goldberg and Kate Darling to look at the "uncanny world of emotional robotics" Read more
18 Jul, 2016
Ken Goldberg and the Multiplicity at Tata Communication Summit
11 Jul, 2016
Ken Goldberg and the relationship between Man and Robot
11 Jul, 2016
Greetings from the New Director
We are delighted to welcome Nicholas de Monchaux to his new role as Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media 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
24 Jun, 2016
Ken Goldberg and the da Vinci Robot Take on Suturing
Eliza Strickland featured the work of BCNM’s Ken Goldberg in developing the da Vinci robotic system's applications in the operating room Read more
24 Jun, 2016
California Report Card Featured in The Promise of Berkeley
The California Report Card was developed by BCNM Professor Ken Goldberg and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom Read more
18 Jun, 2016
Ken Goldberg and robotic system changing laparoscopic surgery
The article discussed Goldberg's work in human-machine collaboration Read more
17 May, 2016
Ken Goldberg Quoted in MIT Technology Review
Author Will Knight turned to BCNM's Ken Goldberg to understand the importance of the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) Read more
19 Apr, 2016
Revisited: Builders Association Berkeley Book Launch
BCNM was thrilled to partner with the Arts + Design | Arts Research Center for the launch of Shannon Jackson's contributions to "Builders Association" Read more
05 Apr, 2016
Ken Goldberg in MIT Technology Review
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29 Mar, 2016
Ken Goldberg and Nicholas De Monchaux in Robolog
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15 Mar, 2016
Ken Goldberg Quoted in Rolling Stone
A Rolling Stone article was recently published, featuring Ken Goldberg, artist + professor Read more
02 Mar, 2016
At "The Art of Humanizing Robotics" with Ken Goldberg
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02 Mar, 2016
Ken Goldberg's SPIE Keynote
25 Feb, 2016
Ken Goldberg Comments on Atlas for Wired
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19 Feb, 2016
Ken Goldberg and a Wake-Up Call for California
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16 Feb, 2016
BCNM Ken Goldberg at Cal Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASERs)
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19 Jan, 2016
QuakeCAFE: How prepared are you for an Earthquake?
24 Nov, 2015
Ken Goldberg at De Young Museum
On Ken Goldberg's exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco Read more
23 Nov, 2015
Ken Goldberg at National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
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17 Nov, 2015
Ken Goldberg in "The Best Advice in Six Words"
16 Nov, 2015
Ken Goldberg on Art, Technology, and Innovation in the Bay Area
04 Nov, 2015
Scott explores online learning environments to increase geographic and cultural connections and build diverse communities Read more
04 Nov, 2015
Ken Goldberg at 2015 Fortune Global Forum
02 Nov, 2015
Ken Goldberg at Bay Area Robotics Symposium 2015
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26 Oct, 2015
Ken Goldberg Counters Robotics Sensationalism in "Nature"
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21 Oct, 2015
Ken Goldberg's book review in Nature
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19 Oct, 2015
Ken Goldberg Paper at IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2015
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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
01 Oct, 2015
BCNM's Ken Goldberg Speaker at RoboBusiness Conference
24 Sep, 2015
Earthquakes on your mind? Check out Ken Goldberg’s artwork, Bloom.
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23 Sep, 2015
Ken Goldberg's "Body in White" on Exhibition October 8
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27 Jul, 2015
Ken Goldberg on Robots and the Cloud in Time Magazine
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20 Jul, 2015
Ken Goldberg on Secrets and Passwords at Headlands
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15 Jul, 2015
The Atlantic's Bold Bets Features Ken Goldberg
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13 Jul, 2015
Best Video Prize at Hamlyn Surgical Robot Challenge
15 Jun, 2015
Margaret Rhee Robot Poetry Collection
Radio Heart is an excerpt from her larger full-length collection Love, Robot currently under review Read more
11 Jun, 2015
Ken Goldberg at Brain Bar Budapest
10 Jun, 2015
Ken Goldberg Finalist at ICRA 2015
29 Apr, 2015
Announcing our Spring 2015 Graduating Class
We'll miss their energy and their intellectual curiosity around BCNM, but wish them all the best in their new endeavors and look forward to the amazing intellectual, artistic, and technological contributions we know they will produce Read more
10 Feb, 2015
"Natural Frequencies" on NPR
Author Laura Sydell discusses Bay Area fault lines, data visualization, the process of generating the score for the carillons Read more
10 Nov, 2014
Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain: "Robots, Botox, and Google Glass"
BCNM's Ken Goldberg and his wife, Tiffany Shlain, have made a new mini-documentary 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
02 Sep, 2014
Announcing the 2014-2015 Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium is an internationally recognized forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about art, technology, and culture Read more
01 Sep, 2014
A roboticist, artist, critic, filmmaker, scientist, teacher, and academic, Ken Goldberg has long been pushing the boundaries of art and technology Read more
22 Jul, 2014
Why We Love Robots Wins Botsker
The Robot Film Festival is "an annual celebration of robots on screen and in performance" 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
15 Oct, 2013
"What Can Robots Teach Us About Ourselves?"
As technology keeps getting better and better, we humans keep asking ourselves, what separates us from our robotic creations? Read more
05 Sep, 2013
Announcing the Fall 2013 – Spring 2014 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture Series
Visit the ATC Colloquium’s home page at atc.berkeley.edu for directions, a list of speakers, and to join the mailing list Read more
26 Mar, 2013
Report from the Audience: Ken Goldberg Speaks on Film "Robot and Frank"
An account of a screening of the film "Robot and Frank," by Charlotte Capaldo Read more
28 Aug, 2012
William Gibson in conversation with Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
September 4, 2012, 7pm
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street (at Presidio) Read more
25 Jul, 2011
Are We There Yet?, A Responsive Sound Installation, Ken Goldberg & Gil Gershoni, Contemporary Jewish Museum, SF Read more
15 Jun, 2011
CITRIS Launches Data and Democracy Initiative
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