Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg
Kenneth Y. Goldbergis an American artist, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics and automation. He is the craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media and Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, with joint appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Art Practice, and the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Goldberg also holds an appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.
Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats.
We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.
The Web meant that I didn't have to schlep a whole bunch of stuff to a museum and fight with all their constraints and make something that, in the end, only 150 people would actually get out to see. Instead, I could put something together in my lab and make it accessible to the world.
Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.
'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.
I told him, ?You should live so long that you die from prostate cancer.
It's a perfect medium to target hard-to-reach audiences.
It's a hybrid system though, so it's collaborative not just among people but also among sensors. A change in the image can be requested by people or sensors and that request can be weighted depending on who or what is making it. If the chief biologist wants to see something, her request can override everything else.
As much as I want to use Suffern as a platform to get out there, I want this effort to be broader than that. ... We just want to save one person.
PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.
If you got everything you wanted, you wouldn't have everything you need.
Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.
Interferometry, like surfing, is a search for the perfect wave. But physicists don't have to paddle around and wait.