Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg’s ‘Ancient Wisdom’ Exhibition Heads to San Francisco
An interdisciplinary exhibition by UC Berkeley IEOR Professor Ken Goldberg and multidisciplinary artist Tiffany Shlain will open in San Francisco on Jan. 22. Ancient Wisdom: Trees, Time, and Technology, created by the married collaborators, bridges art, artificial intelligence and ecological inquiry and was previously featured on the cover of UC Berkeley IEOR magazine. The exhibition…
Read MoreAre we truly on the verge of the humanoid robot revolution?
By Kara Manke In two new papers, UC Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg explains why robots are not gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency. August 27, 2025 AI chatbots have advanced rapidly over the past few years, so much so that people are now using them as personal assistants, customer service representatives and even…
Read MoreUC 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 MoreKen Goldberg: Let’s embrace the creative possibilities of AI
By Ken Goldberg, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley Imagine you’re practicing with a band and someone walks in with a new instrument. You and your pals will probably want to check it out, see how you might jam with it. You…
Read MoreChancellor Carol T. Christ shines spotlight on pioneering AI Research happening at UC Berkeley
In a recent op-ed, Chancellor Carol T. Christ shed light on the vast contributions of UC Berkeley to the ever-evolving world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the article, Christ highlights the pioneering endeavors of Berkeley IEOR Distinguished Professor, Ken Goldberg, and his unwavering and interdisciplinary commitment to comprehensively exploring the depths of AI. Recently, Professor…
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…
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