Ken Goldberg

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
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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...

Trees Of Knowledge: Tiffany Shlain And Ken Goldberg At The Skirball Shlain and Golberg salvaged tree sections whose rings are used for taxonomies on the pursuit of knowledge, mathematics, California history, and Jewish history

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“….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

They seem to be doing incredibly useful work ;)

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.

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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.

ChatGPT can help write an essay. Scientists want it to start folding laundry Artificial intelligence has revolutionized the virtual world. But reality bytes.

ChatGPT can help write an essay. Scientists want it to start folding laundry. Source: @npr.org radio www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...

NVIDIA #GTC2025 Conference Session Catalog Experience GTC 2025 In-Person and Online March 17-21, San Jose.

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:

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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...

@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

“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.

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…
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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

.@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...

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...

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 ...

Super fun to be on this podcast discussing robots and life in general with Dax and Monica: youtube.com/@armchairexp...

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:

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…

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.

Good point. “Waiter-bots” like this are common in Japan and can be cost effective but would you agree most customers prefer human waiters for a better restaurant experience?

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.

“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...

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

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 ...

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

Calling all roboticists…

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.

Nice insight MW. Word cloud tools and Claude advance a long history going back to chisels and cameras designed by designers like you. #HomoHabilus

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? 🤖

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 ...

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

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

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