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UC Berkeley Professor Ken Goldberg shapes the future of robotics | AI In Motion

Jan 15, 2026

The University of California, Berkeley is world-famous for its AI developments, and one big name behind them is Ken Goldberg. Longtime professor and lifelong artist, Ken is all about deep learning while staying true to “good, old fashioned engineering.” Hear Ken talk about his approach to vision and touch for robotic surgeries and how robots will evolve across the board.Each episode, Waymo AI distinguished engineer Vincent Vanhoucke invites a new AI expert to join him for coffee and an insightful backseat conversation in between. These deep-dive, long-form episodes will explore hot topics in the AI world, like safety, foundation models, VLAs and generalization.

Timestamps:
1:36 Deep Learning and ‘Good Old Fashioned Engineering’
6:36 Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap
13:24 Infrastructure, VLMs & Robotics Data Management
21:55 Fog Computing
23:17 Robots, Art & Accidental Social Experiments
33:49 Autonomous Surgery
35:43 The Need for More Data Research
40:53 Computer Vision & Touch Sensing

 

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