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Ken Goldberg

@ken-goldberg.bsky.social
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Artist, Prof. of Engineering @UCBerkeley, Chief Scientist, @AmbiRobotics & @JacobiRobotics. Interested in robots, rockets, redwoods, rebels.

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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Ambi Robotics builds robots to do the heavy lifting www.berkeleyside.org/2026/04/06/a...
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Ambi Robotics builds robots to do the heavy lifting
The Berkeley startup takes some of the backbreaking work out of many labor-intensive jobs.
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Tired of teleoperating your robots?You can scale robot datasets w/o teleop, sim, or robot hardware. Just 1 smartphone scan + 1 human hand demo video → thousands of diverse robot trajectories. Trainable by diffusion policy and VLA models as-is. Introducing: Real2Render2Real 👉 real2render2real.com
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Real2Render2Real
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Looking forward to presenting 8 new robotics research papers w/ students from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social at the IEEE International Conf on Robotics and Automation in Atlanta 20-24 May. Links to our papers, videos, and draft workshop papers etc here: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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AUTOLab ICRA Papers May 2025
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“….This small exhibition delivered insight, knowledge, new ways of seeing, experiencing, and enhancing the health of our cities....  its works are deep, large and expansive." @Forbes Magazine published a review of my exhibit w/ @tiffanyshlain.bsky.social Read here-> forbes.com/sites/tomteich
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
They seem to be doing incredibly useful work ;)
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Fun talking with Steve Levitt of @freakonomics.bsky.social about AI, robots, randomness, art, humanoids, and how @AmbiRobotics is closing the 100,000 year data gap. t.co/qfomE9lyWa
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https://freakonomics.com/podcast/can-robots-get-a-grip/
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Sign of the times: some Europeans employers are now quietly advising employees to get temporary laptops and phones when traveling to the United States — much as U.S. employers have long advised employees to do when visiting China or Russia.
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
ChatGPT can help write an essay. Scientists want it to start folding laundry. Source: @npr.org radio www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...
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ChatGPT can help write an essay. Scientists want it to start folding laundry
Artificial intelligence has revolutionized the virtual world. But reality bytes.
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Igniting the real robot revolution requires closing the “data gap” 🤖 Imagine a future where #robots handle billions of items with AI to support an aging population that doesn’t have enough human workers. Looking fwd to presenting at Nvidia #GTC25 on 18 March 1pm: www.nvidia.com/gtc/session-...
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NVIDIA #GTC2025 Conference Session Catalog
Experience GTC 2025 In-Person and Online March 17-21, San Jose.
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Grr. I'm required to complete 7 online training sessions. All of the topics are important, but I wish I could just read summaries and take quizzes. Forcing us to watch videos about mostly obvious material for hours feels like something out of Clockwork Orange...
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Tiffany Shlain @tiffanyshlain.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
@ken-goldberg.bsky.social and I are heading down to #LA for the Frieze Art Fair for our last artist-led tours of our #Getty PST Art Exhibition “Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology" at the Skirball Join us on either Thurs, Feb 20th 2pm Fri, Feb 21st, 2pm RSVP ancientwisdom.art/events
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
“A-Ha! Moments in Art and Science" -- those Eureka flashes of insight where new ideas suddenly snap into place: Join artists @tiffanyshlain.bsky.social , and writers @GeoffManaugh and @NicolaTwilley for a lively conversation tomorrow : Sunday 12-1pm at the @skirball.bsky.social Center in LA.
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Love discussing art and robots with @debbiemillman.bsky.social and @tiffanyshlain.bsky.social — two brilliant and creative women! Around 20 mins in we consider if a human-AI team will make an important discovery in 2025. I’m usually skeptical but I think this could happen… t.co/EKnDPwu2AX
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tiffany-shlain-ken-goldberg/id328074695?i=1000684673751
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
.@AmbiRobotics launches AmbiStack: an AI-based palletizer trained with Reinforcement Learning to adapt on-the-fly to varying box sizes to optimize packing density: techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/a...
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Ambi Robotics built a clever solution to automate pallet packing | TechCrunch
UC Berkeley spinout Ambi Robotics announced Tuesday the arrival of AmbiStack, a novel system that automates pallet packing. The system features an
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Here's an index into last week's Armchair Expert discussion about @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social , the history of robots, Moravec's paradox, why robot dexterity is so challenging, why some people are AI doomsayers, Aha! moments in discovery and other topics: bit.ly/Ken-on-Armch...
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Super fun to be on this podcast discussing robots and life in general with Dax and Monica: youtube.com/@armchairexp...
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Hi, I’m Dax Shepard, and I love talking to people. I am endlessly fascinated by the messiness of being human, and I find people who are vulnerable and honest about their struggles and shortcomings to ...
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I agree this is a very attractive form-factor and binary grasping of soft objects is feasible, not time-critical, and fault tolerant. And r eminds me of “Thing” from Addams Family:
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Real robot data is rare (and precious). 2 years before ChatGPT, @AmbiRobotics robots started collecting high-quality data in real warehouses. Today, Ambi announces a generative AI model that opens the door to a new generation of warehouse robots: businesswire.com/news/home/2025…
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Let’s live it up! Unless you are older than 87 or plan to live another 91 years, this is our only chance to experience a year that’s a perfect square.
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
“The idea of robots and all of those things, while it may be great for garnering headlines, it’s not practical for the vast majority of restaurants.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/b...
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Why Is It So Hard to Make a Robot Chef?
Restaurants are experimenting with automation. But in the kitchen, human labor is hard to replace.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Stone has being doing some of the coolest sim work for a while now so this thorough simulator comparison is really helpful. It also matches up: there's usually no free lunch in simulation so if you claim a speedup you need to drop something somewhere and it looks like what they dropped was physics
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
A computer systems perspective on integrated (modular and hybrid) large models with good old fashioned engineering (GOFE): arxiv.org/abs/2412.05299 @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @databricks.bsky.social
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Specifications: The missing link to making the development of LLM systems an engineering discipline
Despite the significant strides made by generative AI in just a few short years, its future progress is constrained by the challenge of building modular and robust systems. This capability has been a ...
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Calling all roboticists…
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I went to Mauthausen death camp in 1998. The train conductor denied that it existed and sent me in the wrong direction. when I finally got there it was closing time and empty but I went in to look around. when I tried to leave the front gate was locked. It was getting dark and I’ll never forget.
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Nice insight MW. Word cloud tools and Claude advance a long history going back to chisels and cameras designed by designers like you. #HomoHabilus
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Dr. Angelica Lim @petitegeek.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I just did a live radio interview and the questions were typical: Are robots going to become sentient and take over the world? When am I going to get my home robot? 🤖
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
A computer systems perspective on integrated (modular and hybrid) large models with good old fashioned engineering (GOFE): arxiv.org/abs/2412.05299 @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @databricks.bsky.social
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Specifications: The missing link to making the development of LLM systems an engineering discipline
Despite the significant strides made by generative AI in just a few short years, its future progress is constrained by the challenge of building modular and robust systems. This capability has been a ...
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Thanks to everyone who was there last night! We’ll perform four 30-min demonstrations for kids of all ages tomorrow 1-3pm @exploratorium.bsky.social t.co/JJua3LQsjc
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Using Kevin Black’s conversion rate, that works out to π_0 trained on 1 person-year of robot data vs. Qwen trained on 120,000 person-years of LLM data:
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is an excellent robotics survey paper contrasting deep learning “implicit” models (data driven) with the long history of “explicit” models (Good Old Fashioned Engineering) and calling for methods that integrate both.
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Bigad Shaban @bigadshaban.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
1) Cruise, the embattled driverless car company, is officially getting out of the robotaxi business, according to its majority owner General Motors. Last year, we took you along on a Cruise of our own, but you might remember our ride took an unexpected turn.
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Using Kevin Black’s conversion rate, that works out to π_0 trained on 1 person-year of robot data vs. Qwen trained on 120,000 person-years of LLM data:
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Is this a mask?
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
But why is he leaving the @nytimes.com ? He’s consistently insightful.
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Eric Paulos @epaulos.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Excited to be invited to give the next BayCHI talk on Tue 10 Dec 7:30pm at OtherLab in SF. Come join us for a fun event! ⚡️ baychi.org/calendar/202...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024: Monthly Program (BayCHI)
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Looking fwd to visiting the great roboticists @USC tomorrow. viterbi.usc.edu/calendar/?ev...
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USC - Viterbi School of Engineering - Events Calendar
USC - Viterbi School of Engineering
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Breathless: A robot - human dance performance created by @CatieCua and @Ken-Goldberg @Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, Thurs, 12 Dec 2024, 7:30-9:30pm. Tickets: www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calend...
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Breathless: Catie and the Robot | Exploratorium Museum Event
A human and robot dance duet created by Catie Cuan and Ken Goldberg that addresses the historical, cultural, and emotional complexity of our collective fears about AI and the future of human labor.
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Looking fwd to giving a tour with @TiffanyShlain of our @getty @PST_ART art exhibit @ Skirball in LA on Sunday starting at 6 pm and then screening some of our “smart and cheeky” short films ;): www.skirball.org/programs/sho...
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Korea employs 1 industrial robot for every 10 human workers, the highest density in the world (3.5x more than the US). newsweek.com/south-korea-... @newsweek.com
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South Korea has robots as 10 percent of workforce
It is hoped South Korea's robot prowess will help offset its declining fertility rate, the world's lowest.
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Insightful and well-written:
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 01/12/2024
The anecdote in the Hard Fork podcast may have been intended as—and should definitely be interpreted as—an apt and colorful analogy one researcher perceived between Arrival and the simultaneity of processing in Transformers. It won't bear much weight as a literal claim about historical causality.
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
TY for this nice review! (I hope @ICRA2025 reviewers react similarly).
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Oleg Gutyrchik @gutyrchik.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
And it begins! 🚀 OpenAI takes a bold yet expected step, blending search and AI with its new browser extension. Move over, Google – ChatGPT enters the arena. Will it redefine search with conversational answers or become another fruitless challenge to Google's throne? 🔍💡 #OpenAI #AI
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David Berreby @davidberreby.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
Really enjoyed my conversation last week with Jonathan Hurst of Agility Robotics -- about humanoid robots in general and his in particular. And now it's up! Listen and learn why human-shaped robots are multiplying so fast in 2024.
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Jonathan Hurst of Agility Robotics
After a century of fantasies, actual human-shaped robots are starting to turn up in warehouses and factories. Why now? What is next?
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
🙏🏻 Katherine!
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The "Generative AI will make a lot of traditional robotics approaches obsolete" debate was pretty lively!
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Interesting article but the author drank the Kool-Aid and never sought out other viewpoints: “Foundation models like GPT-4 have largely subsumed [previous] models that help robots with planning and vision, and locomotion and dexterity will probably soon be subsumed, too.”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/11/2024
Using the maps from his daily runs, Duncan McCabe took the Strava art trend to new heights by creating an animated stickman that has become an online sensation.
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Runner Uses Strava to Create Viral Animated Video on TikTok
Using the maps from his daily runs, Duncan McCabe took the Strava art trend to new heights by creating an animated stickman that has become an online sensation.
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Ken Goldberg @ken-goldberg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
3 days of keynotes, 10-min paper talks, and 1-min spotlights on the latest research, all free and open to anyone interested! Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) talks are now online: youtube.com/watch?v=0joZwi… #Robotics #DeepLearning #CoRL2024
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