09 Nov, 2021
Special Events
Grad Chat: Advice on the Academic Job Market from Berkeley Alums
Featuring Margaret Rhee, Reginold Royston,and Ryan Shaw. Moderated by Clancy Wilmott.
Presented as a part of BCNM’s Grad Chats, a series focused on navigating the academic job market and career development with UC Berkeley grads. Read more
16 Apr, 2020
History & Theory
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom*
with Christiane Paul
Chief Curator / Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Professor at The New School and Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Response from Claudia Schmuckli
Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Co-sponsored by AutoLab, Arts + Design, the Arts Research Center, Art Practice, BAMPFA, and held in conjunction with the DH Faire. Read more
15 Apr, 2020
Special Events
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.
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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
14 Sep, 2018
Commons Conversations
Love bytes and intimate machines
Analysing news media representations of human- robot interactions
with Belinda Middleweek
University of Technology Sydney 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
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15 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations
Wild Robots: Bodies & Signs
with Ian Ingram, LA-based artist Read more
11 Feb, 2017
Special Events
Greg Niemeyer on Hippie Modernisms at BAMPFA
Prof. Niemeyer on the latest exhibition 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
15 Sep, 2014
Special Events
Undergraduate Certificate Information Session
Learn how you can get involved this semester! Read more
04 Apr, 2014
Special Events
A panel on our evolving relationship with AI, happening April 4th Read more
11 Dec, 2012
Special Events
Needy Robotics and Our Intimate Interrelationship with Technology
Listen to Alex Reben, engineer and artist, discuss the line that separates thought from data Read more
11 Dec, 2012
Special Events
Needy Robotics and Our Intimate Interrelationship with Technology
Listen to Alex Reben, engineer and artist, discuss the line that separates thought from data Read more
06 Nov, 2012
Special Events
Designing for In-the-Moment Interactions with Robotic Agents
Leila Takayama, research scientist, on communicating with robots Read more
24 Oct, 2012
Special Events
Design Tools for Engineering for Both Big and Little Kids
with Saul Griffith, Founder / Principal Scientist at Other Lab Read more
24 Oct, 2012
Special Events
Design Tools for Engineering for Both Big and Little Kids
with Saul Griffith, Founder / Principal Scientist at Other Lab Read more
21 Feb, 2012
Special Events
with Wendy Ju, California College of Arts, Read more
10 Oct, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Fear and Fun: Performing the Human-Machine Interface
with Kal Spelletich, SF-based artist 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
13 Apr, 2011
Special Events
Participation, Collaboration, and Engagement
with Parul Vora, Wikimedia Foundation 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
15 Apr, 2023
Miyoko Conley's Human Museum at the Rorschach Theatre
Alum Miyoko Conley's play was presented as a reading earlier this month. 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.
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23 Dec, 2022
Ken Goldberg Discusses the Biggest Robotics Trends of 2022
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23 Dec, 2022
Ken Goldberg and AutoLab Featured in IEOR Magazine
The fastest laundry-folding robot and other advances in automation. Read more
16 Dec, 2022
Conference Grants: Sophia Perez at the National Humanities Conference
Sophia presented on her work for the Northern Marianas Humanities Council. 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
15 Nov, 2022
BCNM Around the Web November
Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this November! Read more
14 Nov, 2022
AmbiRobotics, Co-Founded by Ken Goldberg, Receives $32M
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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
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
06 Aug, 2022
The United States in Collapse
Gail De Kosnik writes for the Buffet Institute for Global Affairs. 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
21 May, 2022
Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this May! 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
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
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
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
09 Dec, 2021
Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science! 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
29 May, 2021
Miyoko Conley in the Bay Area Playwright's Festival
BCNM alum Miyoko Conley's play Human Museum will be featured in the 44th Bay Area Playwrights Festival. 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
26 May, 2021
Transcript Now Online: Christiane Paul
Check out the updated transcript for Christiane Paul's HTNM lecture, "Online: Art & AI"! 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
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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
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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01 Apr, 2021
Pablo Paredes on Non-Volitional Behavior Change in Everyday Robotics
BCNM alum Pablo Paredes' paper is featured in the proceedings of the International Conference on the Journal of Human-Robot Interaction. Read more
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
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
21 Nov, 2020
Ken Goldberg's Deep Learning Featured in Science Robotics
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17 Nov, 2020
Ken Goldberg's work was recently presented at the 2020 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). Read more
15 Oct, 2020
Ken Goldberg at IROS 2020
Several papers co-written by Ken Goldberg were presented at IROS 2020. 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
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
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19 Aug, 2020
Summer Research Dispatch: Tina Piracci on 3D Printing with Germinated Spores
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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
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
26 Jun, 2020
Ken Goldberg on robotic-assisted healthcare in COVID-19
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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
05 Apr, 2020
ATC Video Now Online: Margaret Rhee
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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
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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20 Feb, 2020
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by eight BCNM students, faculty and alumni! Read more
12 Feb, 2020
Ken Goldberg was a part of the "Robots for Good" conference track at CES 2020. Read more
07 Feb, 2020
Miyoko Conley's Human Museum Live Feb 12
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies presents Miyoko Conley's Human Museum as part of the New Play Reading Series! 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
12 Jan, 2020
ATC Video Now Online: Marisa Morán Jahn
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10 Jan, 2020
ATC Video Now Online: Madeline Gannon
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05 Jan, 2020
Jacob Gaboury Speaks at Training Humans
Jacob Gaboury spoke at the Fondazione Prada Exhibition, Training Humans, by alum Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford. 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
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
11 Jul, 2019
Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
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11 Jul, 2019
Commons Conversations 2018-2019 In Review
Check out the highlights for this responsive series that delves into the impact of new media on our current political and public climate. 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
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
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
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
14 Mar, 2019
Alum Margaret Rhee Receives Best Book Award from AAAS
The Association for Asian American Studies selected her book for an award in Poetry. 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
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
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 the Blum Center
Ken Goldberg visited the Blum Center to speak on the future of work and on human and AI interaction. 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
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
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
26 Sep, 2018
Commons Conversations Revisited: Belinda Middleweek
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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
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
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
10 Jul, 2018
Alum Trevor Paglen at the 2018 Seattle Art Fair
From August 2-5, 2018, you can see work by Trevor Paglen in Seattle! 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
SRL Featuring Robots by Eric Paulos at Marlborough Contemporary and in the News
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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'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 at SAIL-Toyota Seminar Series at Stanford
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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
28 Apr, 2017
Ohmni TeleRobot Harnesses 20 Year-Old Research from Eric Paulos
Research from Eric Paulos’ 20 year-old PRoP research group is still creating products! Read more
24 Apr, 2017
Hubert Dreyfus in Memoriam
We are sad to hear of the passing of philosopher Hubert Dreyfus. 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
06 Apr, 2017
Announcing Our 2017 Summer Research Award Recipients
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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
16 Mar, 2017
Commons Conversations: Ian Ingram Revisited
We recap this illuminating, wildly humorous talk, "Wild Robots: Bodies and Signs" Read more
25 Jan, 2017
Greg Niemeyer on Hippie Modernisms at BAMPFA
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
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
24 Oct, 2016
The BCNM was thrilled to provide Cesar Torres (EECS) with a conference travel grant 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
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
07 Jul, 2016
Two Honorable Mentions and a Best Paper at DIS 2016
This year the biennial ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held in Brisbane, Australia 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
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
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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16 Nov, 2015
Revisited: "Design, Geopolitics, and Planetary-Scale Computing"
with Benjamin Bratton
a Revisited post written by Kate Mattingly (TDPS) 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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01 Oct, 2015
BCNM's Ken Goldberg Speaker at RoboBusiness Conference
27 Jul, 2015
Ken Goldberg on Robots and the Cloud in Time Magazine
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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
18 Mar, 2015
BCNM Welcomes Spring 2015 DE & Certificate Students
Applications this semester were phenomenal and we’re thrilled by the unique perspectives each of our new students will bring to the Center Read more
18 Nov, 2014
Welcoming New DE and Certificate Students
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
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
21 Jul, 2014
The world’s first interdisciplinary open license contest celebrating the carillon launched: Hack the Bells Read more
02 Jun, 2014
We're celebrating our 10th year! Hear how BCNM professor Eric Paulos designs devices that transform how we understand our world Read more
28 Apr, 2014
Robots and New Media in the SF Bay Guardian
24 Apr, 2014
Announcing our Spring 2014 Graduating Class
We are proud to announce our latest cohort of graduating BCNM Designated Emphasis and Masters Certificate students 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
27 Mar, 2014
The Dream of Intelligent Robot Friends – The Atlantic
Carla Diana, panelist in BCNM's upcoming Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, published "The Dream of Intelligent Robot Friends" in the Atlantic Read more
26 Mar, 2014
Presenting the Robots and New Media Symposium
The Kingdom of the Netherlands and UC BCNM highlight the next phase in the evolution of robotics with the “Robots and New Media Symposium” on April 4 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
02 Apr, 2013
ATC Lecture: Alexander Long, "Land Art for the Next 10,000 Years"
How do you build an monument scale sculptural machine that will last as long as civilization? 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
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This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.
This list is updated regularly. Check back often for the latest updates. Email lara@berkeley.edu with suggestions.