Robotics and Automation
UC Berkeley Researchers Win Top Honors at World’s Leading Robotics Conference
A team of researchers from UC Berkeley has received the Best Paper Award on Robot Learning at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), considered the world’s premier conference in robotics and automation. The event was held in Atlanta 19-23 May. The award went to UC Berkeley IEOR Professor Ken Goldberg, his…
Read MoreAncient Wisdom: Exploring the Intersection of AI, Art, and Nature
The cover of the winter 2025 edition of Berkeley IEOR Magazine showcases artwork from Ancient Wisdom: Trees, Time, and Technology, an exhibition by Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain currently on view at the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles through March 2, 2025. Part of the Getty Museum’s city-wide Pacific Standard Time quadrennial, the exhibit examines…
Read MoreRobots could help close surgeons’ skill gaps and improve patient outcomes
by Rachel Level, College of Computing, Data Science, and Society Robots could soon play a larger role in surgery thanks to recent AI developments, experts said in a new Science Robotics paper published today. Advances in generative AI and other areas could enable robots to assist human surgeons during certain tasks that require significant dexterity…
Read MoreWatch: Why we don’t have robot butlers yet | Professor Ken Goldberg Delivers Tedx Talk
In this 12-minute TEDx talk, artist and roboticist Ken Goldberg explains why robots are still klutzy and shows some of the surprising things they are starting to learn….We have microwaves, lasers, and cellphones: where are the robots? Computers and AI have advanced significantly, but here is why we still don’t have robots that can do…
Read MoreKen Goldberg Isn’t Scared of Artificial Intelligence
Robots Can’t make Art. Or Can They? Image Credits: Ken Goldberg / Illustration by Mark Gettys with Midjourney Robots can do a great many things, but they can’t make art. That view, common even among AI boosters, has taken a hit with the recent torrent of innovation in artificial intelligence. In late 2022 ChatGPT was…
Read MoreProfessor Ken Goldberg and AUTOLAB Win IEEE CASE Best Paper Award
IEOR Professor Ken Goldberg and UC Berkeley’s AUTOLAB have done it again! The prestigious IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) recently awarded its Best Paper Award to Goldberg and his team (M. Preston, R. Parikh, S. Aeron, S. Mukherjee, S. Adebola. S. Sharma, M. Theis, and W. Teitelbaum) for their impactful research, Automated…
Read MoreKen Goldberg featured on NPR Marketplace Tech on how robots can help with supply chain issues this holiday season
With ongoing shortages of workers, supplies, products and materials, it may be tough for consumers to get their gifts in time for the holiday season. Can new robotic technology developed by Berkeley IEOR and Professor Ken Goldberg help consumers receive their gifts on time? In an interview on NPR’s Marketplace Tech podcast, Ken Goldberg, IEOR…
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