16 Facts About Ken Goldberg

Kenneth Yigael Goldberg was born on 1961 and is an American artist, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics and automation.

Ken Goldberg is professor and chair of the industrial engineering and operations research department at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the William S Floyd Jr.

Ken Goldberg expressed an interest in art during high school, but his parents suggested he study something more practical.

Ken Goldberg then taught in the department of computer science at the University of Southern California from 1991 to 1995 and was visiting faculty in 2000 at MIT.

Ken Goldberg leads the UC Berkeley Automation Sciences Lab, which pursues research in Cloud Robotics and Automation, Social Information Retrieval using geometric algorithms, and Algorithmic Automation for Feeding, Fixturing, Grasping, with an emphasis on geometric algorithms that minimize sensing and actuation.

Ken Goldberg patented the kinematically yielding gripper, a new robot gripper that complies passively to hold parts securely without sensing.

Ken Goldberg's research has resulted in eight United States patents.

Ken Goldberg is credited with developing the first robot with web interface.

Ken Goldberg is a leading researcher in networked telerobotics and Cloud Robotics and has developed a series of collaborative tele-operation systems such as the Tele-Actor, in which a human moves through a remote environment guided by remote participants via the Internet.

Ken Goldberg is co-founder, with Ayorkor Korseh, of the African Robotics Network, established in 2012 to promote communication and collaborations that will enhance robotics-related education, research, and industry on the continent of Africa.

Ken Goldberg is co-founder of the Berkeley Center for New Media and served as its director from 2007 to 2010, and is co-founder and director of the Data and Democracy Initiative of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society.

Ken Goldberg's project, Opinion Space, is a data visualization which enables organization and analysis of constructive suggestions, using an intuitive graphical map of ideas.

Ken Goldberg is founding director of UC Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Lecture Series, established in 1997.

Ken Goldberg is editor of several books, including The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet, and Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robotics, which both explore what is knowable at a distance.

Ken Goldberg has worked on several net-based installation pieces from 1995 to today.

Ken Goldberg has held visiting positions at San Francisco Art Institute, MIT Media Lab, and the Art Center College of Design.