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Ken Goldberg

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2 years

It’s not hard to see @ElonMusk ’s logic; @Tesla as a robotics company could justify much higher P/E than Tesla as a car company. But robotics isn’t rocket science — it’s harder. Glad to have @Tesla join the effort!

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I couldn’t agree more! Here are my students at midnight last night after the #ICRA2023 deadline:

Russ Salakhutdinov

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8 months

I get asked a lot: why stay in academia, all the excitement in AI is happening in industry with massive compute. And I am seeing some profs leaving academia, but also seeing lots of researchers in industry looking to go back to academia, especially those who don’t work on LLMs.…

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3 years

And EECS @UCBerkeley just voted to drop the GRE from use in grad admissions. Proud of these steps toward diversity.

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@ABC7

3 years

UC system officially drops SAT, ACT scores from use in admissions and scholarships

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2 years

The earth has experienced 5 mass extinctions where life was sustained under the oceans. Isn’t that a better bet than the moon or Mars if we one day need to take refuge?

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@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

10 girls on Afghanistan's robotics team rescued via @nbcnews

10 girls on Afghanistan's robotics team rescued

The team, a group of girls ages 16-18 pursuing their love of engineering and robotics, safely arrived in Doha, Qatar, days after Kabul fell to the Taliban.

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

Deep Learning Can Significantly Accelerate Grasp-Optimized Motion Planning. Results can reduce computation time for a pick-and-place task from 29 seconds to 80 milliseconds. Science Robotics @AAAS

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

300+ Bay Area roboticists gathering now for the first time since the Pandemic #BARS2021 @AmbiRobotics

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

2 years

Excited to announce that @Jeff_Ichnowski , a stellar robotics and systems postdoc in the @AUTOLab_Cal , originator of Grasp Optimized Motion Planning (GOMP) and Cloud Robotics for ROS ( #FogROS2 ), will start as Asst. Prof. of Computer Science @CarnegieMellon in January!

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

2 years

197 papers accepted for Conference on Robot Learning in Auckland (39% acceptance rate, same as last year). Major thanks to Program Chairs and Reviewers. @corl_conf #CoRL22 .

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

4 years

A high-quality dataset of 696 common household objects that @GoogleResearch 3D-scanned is now available under @creativecommons license for researchers in robot simulation and perception:

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

We are trying to upload our #ICRA2022 papers and ready to open a case of cold beer…

Tobias Jacob

@tobiasjacob24

3 years

Looks like #ICRA2022 website is completely down :/

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

4 years

🙏🏻 for inviting me! Here's my "Avuncular Advice from A to Z":

2020-07-v2-Avuncular-Advice-from-A-to-Z-25mins-PDF.pdf

drive.google.com

Robotics: Science and Systems

@RoboticsSciSys

4 years

#RSSpioneers has an amazing line-up of speakers that will share their career experiences, including: - Dieter Fox, @UW - Ken Goldberg @ken_goldberg , @UCBerkeley - Jana Tumova @jana_tumova , KTH - Vikas Sindhwani @vikassindhwani , @Google - Sangbae Kim, @MIT

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Ken Goldberg

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11 months

Excited to announce that roboticist @daniel_t_seita (), former @AUTOLab_Cal member, will be starting as Asst. Prof. of Computer Science at @CSatUSC in August!

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Ken Goldberg

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8 months

Hats off to @ToyotaResearch for exciting results with “Large Behavior Models” and Diffusion Policies:

Teaching Robots New Behaviors

The Toyota Research Institute is unveiling a new approach that allows a robot to acquire new dexterous behaviors from demonstration. We’re going to walk thro...

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

2 months

"Why don't we have better robots yet?": just posted on the @TEDTalks home page under Newest Talks (3rd row from the top) with links to @PieRobotics and @Forbes article on art by Ben Wolff @creativecellist @Berkeley_AI @UCBerkeley @Cal_Engineer

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

4 months

Thank you for the best 27 years of my life @TiffanyShlain !

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

The @IEEE Robotics and Automation Society just voted to allocate USD$50,000/year for their conferences to provide services requested by attendees with disabilities (eg sign-language interpreters). Kudos to Torsten Kroeger, Daniel Seita, and others for leading this effort.

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

5 years

I ❤️ editing. Especially drafts by the brilliant, dedicated students in my lab. #AUTOLab @UCBerkeley (good luck to them + all racing to make the #ICRA2020 deadline tonight!)

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

1 year

Today at 5:10pm PST: Talk by #ChatGPT lead engineer and @UCBerkeley alum John Schulman: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback: Progress and Challenges. Berkeley AI Research Lab @berkeley_ai @Berkeley_EECS Livestreamed:

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

2 years

The Conference on Robot Learning 2022 website is now up! @corl_conf Submission deadline 15 June. Happy New Year (although it's already 2022 in New Zealand;):

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

4 years

The word " #robot " was coined in 1920. A small word with a gigantic influence on human imagination (I may be slightly biased). A toast to the robots of the past century and those ahead...

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

2 years

Very interesting to hear @geoffreyhinton questioning backpropagation, advocating for local reward functions, describing adversarial examples as human error, and recounting the history of t-SNE! (BTW: skeptics are quite different than deniers;)

Pieter Abbeel

@pabbeel

2 years

Chatting with @geoffreyhinton was really inspiring, so excited to get to share our conversation: Apple: Spotify: Google: Youtube:

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Ken Goldberg

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2 years

The first two are based on recent moves at @Meta and @DeepMind . Robotics&Automation are attracting interest from many sectors and smart VCs. The key is not to expect miracles but to hunker down: demonstrate new prototypes and engineer them into reliable, cost-effective systems.

AmbiRobotics

@AmbiRobotics

2 years

Professor @Ken_Goldberg shares his 2022 robotics predictions with @therobotreport that are poised to grow rapidly this year. Read more: #AI -powered #robots for #supplychain and #ecommerce

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@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

I just discovered that my dog ❤️ robots as much as I do.

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3 years

As @Animesh_Garg noted, the future of robot-assisted surgery is not about replacing surgeons. Like cruise control for cars, it’s about increasing consistency and decreasing tedium. @CadeMetz ’s article describes our new results.

The Robot Surgeon Will See You Now (Published 2021)

Real scalpels, artificial intelligence — what could go wrong?

www.nytimes.com

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

6 years

All videos of keynotes and talks from 1st Conference on #Robot Learning ( #CoRL2017 ) incl. keynotes by @rodneyabrooks , @ylecun , Stefanie Tellex, Anca Dragan, and Drew Bagnell and 50 papers and Open Problems Session notes:

Robot Learning Foundation

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

8 years

Amen. "What gives me hope is my students. They are the future." @Stanford 's @DrFeFei Li today @Cal @UCB_EECS

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

2 years

Congratulations @pabbeel for this huge and well-deserved honor!!

Association for Computing Machinery

@TheOfficialACM

2 years

Our warmest congratulations to Pieter Abbeel @pabbeel , recipient of the 2021 #ACMPrize for contributions to robot learning, including learning from demonstrations and deep reinforcement learning for robotic control. Learn more about Abbeel’s work here:

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

All #ICRA2021 Plenary and Keynote Talks will be available online for free starting 6am Tues PST:

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@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

ML legend Michael Jordan is moving away from the singular intelligence paradigm of AI and focusing on complementarity—AI that enhances the productivity of human groups:

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

27 days

Looking fwd to presenting a new talk: "Data is All You Need: Large Robot Action Models and Good Old Fashioned Engineering" @Stanford Robotics Seminar on Friday:

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 months

The @OpenAI core team behind #Sora , Tim Brooks ( @_tim_brooks ) and Bill Peebles ( @billpeeb ), are recent graduates of @UCBerkeley @berkeley_ai BAIR Lab. Apparently they chose the name Sora because it "evokes the idea of limitless creative potential".

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2 years

CoRL: 6th Conference on Robot Learning will be in Auckland, New Zealand, 14-18 Dec 2022 (where it'll be summertime ;): @CoRL_Conf Deadline 15 June: We welcome submissions addressing the theory and practice of machine learning for robots and automation.

Robot Learning Foundation

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2 years

To hire top engineers @elonmusk needs ambitious visions. Optimus is similar to robots developed by @BostonDynamics and @agilityrobotics . It's not clear how it will perform reliable manipulation and be cost effective. But hats off to the Great Muskini for getting our attention!

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2 years

I caught it a few weeks ago from a friend and then passed in on to several family members. No one seems able to shake it. I think everyone is going to end up getting infected. We’re just going to have to learn how to live with #Wordle .

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@Ken_Goldberg

2 years

Thank you @TiffanyShlain for the best quarter century a boy could wish for!

Tiffany Shlain

@tiffanyshlain

2 years

25 years ago today, ⁦ @Ken_Goldberg ⁩ and I met. ❤️

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Ken Goldberg

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3 years

The 2020 Bay Area Robotics Symposium (BARS) on Friday included a fascinating variety of new results summarized in short talks ( ) all available now online, including keynote from @RodneyaBrooks :

BARS 2020

The 2020 Bay Area Robotics Symposium aims to bring together roboticists from the Bay Area. The program consists of a mix of faculty, student and industry pre...

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

1 year

Remembering building a robot with my father, Melvin Morris Goldberg. An engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur with an irreverent sense of humor, he passed away on Dec 9, 1982.

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2 years

A “thread” on untangling — awarded Best Systems Paper @RoboticsSciSys — congrats to everyone involved @AUTOLab_Cal @berkeley_ai @UCBerkeley

Vainavi Viswanath

@vainavi_v

2 years

Tangled cables are unwieldy, unsightly, and a tripping hazard in homes and workplaces – including retail, factories, boats, and rock concerts ;). Can robots help? Thread 🧵👇 (1/7)

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Ken Goldberg

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3 years

70 presentations on the latest research today. Huge thanks to all presenters and to @DorsaSadigh from @Stanford and @mark_w_mueller from @UCBerkeley for organizing!

Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

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300+ Bay Area roboticists gathering now for the first time since the Pandemic #BARS2021 @AmbiRobotics

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2 years

505 papers received! Thanks to all authors. Program Committee headed by Karen Liu, @ProfKulic , @Jan_R_Peters , and @jeff_ichnowski are working now with Area Chairs to assign reviewers!

Conference on Robot Learning

@corl_conf

2 years

Today is the day! Looking forward to your submissions! #CoRL2022 🤖 Have you already tested our submission system and added an early version? Time to try it out! 😉 #robotics #machinelearning

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Ken Goldberg

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3 months

#1 topic requested by @ycombinator is #Robotics : "Robotics hasn't yet had its GPT moment, but we think it’s close.... We're interested in people building software tools to help other people to make robots:

YC's latest Request for Startups | Y Combinator

These are some of the things we want to see more founders working on.

www.ycombinator.com

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

1 year

Congratulations! This is a major boost for #ROS2 and robotics.

Alphabet’s Intrinsic Acquires Majority of Open Robotics

Open Robotics, which includes the nonprofit Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) as well as the for-profit Open Source Robotics Corporation (OSRC), announced that 0SRC is being acquired by Intrin...

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

Why do artists often over-estimate the skills of engineers, while engineers often under-estimate the skills of artists? It would be ideal if we could eliminate both biases.

National Academy of Engineering

@theNAEng

3 years

"The amount of hard work and studying that’s needed to learn how to be an artist is analogous to the hard work that we’re well aware of in engineering" - @UCBerkeley prof. @ken_goldberg , in #NAEBridge article on #engineering and art. Read more here:

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Ken Goldberg

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2 years

Deeply saddened by this news. JPL was a brilliant friend and colleague; a pioneer in robot motion planning and thoughtful thinker about art, culture, and robots. RIP.

CNRS Sciences informatiques

@CNRSinformatics

2 years

Death of Jean-Paul Laumond, a pionner in motion planning for #Robotics ➡️

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7 months

As my students and I explore #ChatGPT -4V, I feel like an archaeologist who is entering a newly discovered massive chamber under one of the pyramids.

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6 years

Spotlight @Nature article summarizes latest research in robot grasping:

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

If you think protein folding is challenging…( @Deepmind )

Oded Rechavi

@OdedRechavi

3 years

When you finish filming your slides at 2 am and are too tired to properly put the dust cover on the microscope

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

The @Yale “Model W” robot gripper uses palm and link contacts for dextrous manipulation. It was designed by optimizing joint parameters using a metric inspired by caging theory.

Science Robotics

@SciRobotics

3 years

A #robotic hand equipped with a palm was able to perform a variety of contact-rich hand motions - for example, fidgeting with objects - that are difficult for most robotic hands equipped only with fingers. Designed by @YaleSEAS scientists:

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Co-founded with 4 other roboticists from @UCBerkeley , @Jacobi_Robotics will address critical software gaps for industrial robotics. via @therobotreport

Jacobi Robotics shortens robot programming cycle in partnership with Formic - The Robot Report

Jacobi Robotics has launched new path-planning and optimization system with Formic to accelerate palletizing applications.

www.therobotreport.com

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@Ken_Goldberg

11 months

Seeking Postdoc with experience in Robotics and Cloud-Based Systems (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) to work closely with @UCBerkeley Profs. Ken Goldberg and Joey Gonzales on research on cloud robotics architectures and platforms such as FogROS2:

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3 years

Roboticists are well aware of this ;)

Filip Piekniewski🌻 🐘:@[email protected]

@filippie509

3 years

The first important fact to realize when thinking about AI is that an agent in physical reality literally NEVER encounters the same input state twice. The second is to realize that two very similar input states may require vastly different actions based on some small detail.

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@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

Thanks to @CBaradar and the team @TheHouseVC from @UCBerkeley for the opportunity to talk about post-Covid developments in robotics and automation...

The Surging Opportunity for Robotic Automation

Ken Goldberg and The House Fund discuss the opportunities and challenges in state-of-the-art robotics for Manufacturing and Logistics.

link.medium.com

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@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

Looking fwd to this on Fri at 1pm ET

University of Toronto Robotics Institute

@UofTRobotics

3 years

@UofTRobotics is hosting our first live-streamed seminar! Catch @ken_goldberg discussing the "New Wave in Robot Grasping" on Friday, March 19th at 1pm Eastern on our YouTube page:

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Ken Goldberg

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2 years

Aha! Now we know why @Hyundai bought @BostonDynamics BostonDynamics…

Hyundai is actually building those wild unstoppable 4x4s on robot legs

We see a lot of wacky concept vehicles, but few as nutty as Hyundai's Ultimate Utility Vehicles with their robotic stilt legs. And the company is dead serious about building them, too, with a new...

newatlas.com

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

Responding to the popular request for a new hemisphere ;). Hope to see everyone at #CoRL2022 !

Markus Wulfmeier

@m_wulfmeier

3 years

. @Ken_Goldberg announcing the next location for @corl_conf 2022: Auckland, New Zealand!

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

A robot can uniquely orient any polygonal part without sensing, using an algorithm from 1991. A new interactive website lets you test it with your own part shapes:

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

Very proud of the team @AmbiRobotics for extending Dex-Net grasping research from @UCBerkeley to achieve Superhuman Sorting -- picking, scanning, and placing -- a wide range of real packages at twice the speed of humans.

AmbiRobotics

@AmbiRobotics

3 years

Introducing AmbiSort, an #AI -powered #robotic sorting line, powered by AmbiOS, our advanced simulation-to-reality AI operating system that allows associates to work at the speed of #ecommerce . Learn more at

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

2 years

Hearty Congratulations to 3 new PhDs from @UCBerkeley @AUTOLab_Cal @berkeley_ai : Dr. Mike Danielczuk, ( @DanielczukMike ), Dr. Brijen Thananjeyan, ( @brthananjeyan ), and Dr. Ashwin Balakrishna, ( @ashwinb96 )! Titles and links...(½)

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@Ken_Goldberg

2 years

Relax everyone! This headline is greatly overstated. This is a mild improvement of work reported in 2016 where a robot with specialized lighting and a suture gun positions the gun. The results are interesting but researchers are very far from putting surgeons out of work.

The Independent

@Independent

2 years

#Robot performs surgery without help from humans

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

2 years

You can relax. Claims about AGI are greatly exaggerated. There are real dangers for our planet: climate change, nuclear war, virus mutations, but AI is not one of them.

Aella

@Aella_Girl

2 years

AI is going to kill us all - a thread on my process trying to figure out wtf is going on and how likely it is we are all going to die within ten years

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Call For Papers: CoRL: 6th Conference on Robot Learning will be in Auckland, New Zealand, 14-18 Dec 2022 (online and in-person during summertime ;): @CoRL_Conf Deadline 15 June:

Robot Learning Foundation

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

Cutting edge task and results: congrats!!

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6 years

Correct: "Robots are still quite clumsy compared with humans when dealing with physical manipulation in unstructured environments and tasks.": What can machine learning do? [ @erikbryn @tommmitchell

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3 years

The @SciRobotics special issue on Robot Grasping and Manipulation includes 4 Focus Articles, 2 Research Surveys, and 5 Research Articles.

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3 years

Robots should be developed by diverse teams. @BlackinRobotics will focus on three primary pillars—community, advocacy, and accountability. Editorial in @SciRobotics by @robotsmarts and @Kennedy3Monroe

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2 years

I’ve been studying grasping for 35 years and I’m still terrible at catching balls of any shape or size.

Berkeley Center for New Media

@calnewmedia

2 years

What we're reading: this great feature in the @sfexaminer on @Ken_Goldberg and his quest to solve robot grasping!

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Ken Goldberg

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1 year

I was a PhD student in the Leg Lab. That was 40 years ago. Marc and @BostonDynamics have made remarkable progress but this compilation left out the bloopers and it misses @ylecun ’s point that progress in LLMs does not necc. imply progress in robotics.

AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️

@AISafetyMemes

1 year

@ylecun Seems like we're extremely fast progress to me

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Ken Goldberg

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2 years

In ML researchers often write about the "mismatch" between distributions, models, etc, but it seems the correct word is "disparity". Mismatch describes a discrete category error, whereas disparity is the degree of difference eg, KL divergence measures disparity, not mismatch.

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7 years

207 papers were submitted to 1st Conf on #Robot Learning ( #CoRL ) by June 28 deadline.

Robot Learning Foundation

www.robot-learning.org

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

1 year

So glad #CoRL22 is all now archived and free to anyone interested. Thank you @MinasLiarokapis for being the best Local Chair imaginable!!

Conference on Robot Learning

@corl_conf

1 year

But wait, this is not everything! We now have ALL OUR TALKS ONLINE! This includes keynotes, tutorials, orals, spotlights, sponsors, opening & closing sessions...

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Ken Goldberg

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1 year

We're in the middle of a paradigm shift. I'm reconsidering my prior views on AI and Creativity:

Ingenious: Ken Goldberg

Creative robots, the Kurzweil fallacy, and what it means to be human.

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

4 years

Trying to find keywords, authors, topics for the 1000+ papers at #ICRA2020 ? This spreadsheet includes links to the Slack channel for every paper listing the 10 min video, pdf, and Q&A thread:

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@Ken_Goldberg

11 months

Just out: "RVT: Robotic View Transformer for 3D Object Manipulation" by @nvidia research ...trains 36X faster than Perceiver-Actor (Thx @ryan_hoque !)

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Ken Goldberg

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3 years

Really like this "portrait" of our lab featuring things we work with including robot grippers, suction cups, vacuum valve, camera, adversarial grasp objects, assorted tools & coffee pod ;) by Adam Lau @UCBerkeley Larger version:

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

2 years

Computational neural networks are *very* loose approximations of biological brains. This is an excellent summary of key differences: by Matthew Roos in @TDataScience

Deep Learning versus Biological Neurons: floating-point numbers, spikes, and neurotransmitters

In recent years, “deep learning” AI models have often been touted as “working like the brain,” in that they are composed of artificial…

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

2 years

Happy Chinese New Year: May all your paper reviewers be wise and appreciative of true novelty.

カナ

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2 years

理事長特別賞をいただきました！

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@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

“…The new rankings give extra credit to schools that educate the greatest number of students from the broadest range of backgrounds.” @Forbes

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@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

Many scientists view artists as soft and fuzzy, and artists view scientists as clueless about history and culture... But in both art and science, if you don’t deeply understand what has gone before, you can’t innovate:

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3 years

I really appreciate the chance to discuss the design of robot grippers, the role of fault tolerance in automation applications, and the importance of dirty laundry for research in @MarwaEldiwiny ’s exciting @ieeeras podcast series!

Marwa ElDiwiny

@MarwaEldiwiny

3 years

It was a pleasure to have Ken Goldberg @ken_goldberg on the podcast, he is one of my role models professors since I was undergrad student, I enjoyed this conversation on robotics grasping, I hope you find it useful. #robotics The episode

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

Theory and simulation are excellent but there’s a certain thrill to performing physical experiments.

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

1 year

When will @ChatGPT create great cartoons?

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

1 year

Just saw this and couldn’t peel my eyes away from it: stunning details and textures referencing art history. The most compelling generative work I’ve seen. Hats off to you Refik.

Refik Anadol

@refikanadol

2 years

I’m deeply honored and excited to announce our exhibition — Unsupervised opening on the 19th of November at MoMA! It’s a dream of many artists to have the opportunity to imagine, practice and exhibit for such an important institution that supports the creativity of humanity!

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With a Tiger in our tank, we’re hiring: “ @AmbiRobotics has quickly leapt to the front of the pack when it comes to AI robotic piece-picking for parcel sortation and ecommerce fulfillment operations," said Griffin Schroeder, Partner, Tiger Global.

AmbiRobotics

@AmbiRobotics

3 years

We are proud to announce the completion of our Series A #funding ! The money raised enables us to boost deployments of our #AI -powered sorting #robots to our supply chain customers. Read our press release here:

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

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Starting now! Reinforcement Learning with Large Datasets: a Path to Resourceful Autonomous Agents - Prof. Sergey Levine ( @svlevine ) @Berkeley_AI , @citrisnews , @UCBerkeley :

CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute leverage the research strengths of the University of California campuses at Berkeley,...

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

Very honored to see recognized in this way. The team of PhD students out of @UCBerkeley @Cal_Engineer is commercializing and extending advances combining deep learning with sim2real for robot grasping and picking:

Ambi Robotics | AI-Powered Robotics Company | Handle More |

AI-powered robotic parcel sorting solutions for shipping, ecommerce and logistics. Automate package handling with robotic sorting systems.

www.ambirobotics.com

Silicon Valley Robotics 🐳

@svrobo

3 years

The Overall Excellence Awards go to ecommerce and logistics robotics companies @AiAmbidextrous and @FetchRobotics It was a very tough decision with so many other great companies to choose from! See all 52 stories at

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

4 months

Here's the syllabus for our new class @UCBerkeley : Beyond the Uncanny Valley: Art, AI, and Robotics

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

8 months

250 Years of Robotics Research: Today at noon. @berkeley_ai . @UCBerkeley @rodneyabrooks Livestream @

Berkeley EECS

The Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. Pioneering the frontiers of science & technology with broad impact on society. If you would like closed captions for any...

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Berkeley AI Research

@berkeley_ai

9 months

Join us next Tuesday 12-1 PM (in-person + livestreamed) for a special panel on The Past and Future of Robotics and Machine Intelligence! Hear from 250+ years of combined experience w/ Ruzena Bacjsy, @rodneyabrooks , @Ken_Goldberg , @JitendraMalikCV , Shankar Sastry, Claire Tomlin.

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

4 years

Excited also about this BAIR blog comparing approaches to deep learning for robot manipulation of fabric, a hard problem with applications in hospitals, homes, retirement centers, and assembly lines.

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

3 years

Thank you dear Odessa! This montage is hilarious!

Odessa Simone Shlain Goldberg

@odessasgoldberg

3 years

happy birthday dad! @Ken_Goldberg

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@Ken_Goldberg

2 years

Thanks to ⁦ @michellehampson ⁩ ⁦ @IEEESpectrum ⁩ for this well-written summary of our journal paper. Robots won’t replace human surgeons but can assist with tedious subtasks. ⁦ @AUTOLab_Cal ⁩ ⁦ @IntuitiveSurg ⁩ ⁦ @UCBerkeley ⁩

Robot Outperforms a Surgeon in a Precision Training Task

The feat brings us one step closer to fully automated surgeries

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

5 years

4000 roboticists @icra2019 in Montreal (1st time in Canada) starting now!

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

1 year

Kudos to all who contributed to making this conference such a success! And a special thanks to my students who traveled from @UCBerkeley to present their papers:

Bipasha Sen

@bipashasen31

1 year

My personal highlight of #ICRA2023 ! ICRA was grand in every aspect, be it the exhibitions showcasing the state of the art robots, the amazing posters, and mind-blowing keynotes and plenary talks. And interestingly...this is still just the beginning for robotics!

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Thanks Rod. We don’t want to dampen the recent enthusiasm for Gen AI in robotics and humanoids, but it may be helpful for everyone to “curb our enthusiasm” a bit and remember GOFE so we can flatten the hype curve and avoid a bubble…

Rodney Brooks

@rodneyabrooks

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End to end learning for robotics is in a bit of a hype cycle but proponents sometimes miss the fact that practical results are not just end to end learning. As UC Berkeley Professor @Ken_Goldberg points out in this clip from a recent talk he gave at Stanford, Good Old Fashioned…

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Ken Goldberg

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AI-generated images and text cannot be copyrighted (!!) according to US @CopyrightOffice :

Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

1 year

Tomorrow / Wed at 12:10pm PST, 6th @UCBerkeley Lecture on AI: Law Professor and copyright expert @PamelaSamuelson : Generative AI Meets Copyright Law. Berkeley AI Research Lab @berkeley_ai @citrisnews Livestreamed:

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

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Then we are pretty far from “AGI”: Many jobs require dexterity. Advances in AI will contribute to robotics but the ability to solve math problems and even to discover new proofs and models does not imply the ability to design and construct efficient, reliable robots.

Jim Fan

@DrJimFan

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I like this definition. I’d raise the bar to 95% performance of 95% economically valuable jobs. This would necessarily require us to solve ROBOTICS. LLMs alone are not enough to realize physically embodied, generalist agents. Robotics will be the last and by far the most…

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Ken Goldberg

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4 years

This is what I call “Sim2Null” ;) Looking fwd to a lively debate this Saturday #RSS2020 Workshop: Closing the Reality Gap in Sim2Real Transfer for Robotics @animesh_garg @Jan_R_Peters @pabbeel

3rd Workshop on Closing the Reality Gap in Sim2Real Transfer for Robotics

Full Day Workshop at R:SS 2022 (New York City, New York, USA), June 27th

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Serena Ivaldi

@serena_ivaldi

4 years

@Jan_R_Peters @animesh_garg @ken_goldberg because there are too many people claiming to do robot learning, while what they do is learn from simulated robots in a very simplistic simulated world. and they think if it works in simulation, then it will on the robot.

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

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Starts in 15 mins! @NationalSawdust in Brooklyn NY presents: Breathless: Catie and the Robot, an eight-hour modern dance homage to physical labor. Created by @CatieCuan and @KenGoldberg Saturday, December 16, 2023 (3 shifts: 2-10pm, discussion: 10-11pm):

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

5 years

A novel approach to integrating model-based and model-free RL using a few suboptimal demonstrations, by @berkeley_ai PhD students Ashwin Balakrishna and Brijen Thananjeyan with @svlevine and Joey Gonzalez and Francesco Borelli and others.

arXiv Daily

@Arxiv_Daily

5 years

Data Science research moves quickly. Stay up-to-date with the latest publication by @ken_goldberg #Estimator #ReinforcementLearning

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Ken Goldberg

@Ken_Goldberg

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Suggesting these GAN hacks are creative evinces a profound misunderstanding of creativity: the images are execrable and the concept is superficial:

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