@ken_goldberg
Artist and Engineering Prof @UCBerkeley, Co-Founder @AmbiRobotics & @JacobiRobotics. Interests: robots, rockets, redwoods, rebels.
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A post highlights a late-breaking results session for work on robotics agents or Real2Sim2Real.
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The announcement claims Claude and GPT each built a full-dynamics digital twin from a phone video in an hour.
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A post asks for contacts at small or medium manufacturing companies using the approach to improve real production.
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Its developer says wrist cameras are critical for robot performance but add bulk, cost and complexity.
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Thrun thanked Encord for telling his friends in San Francisco about his appearance.
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A September 7 post previewed the 1:30–2:15 p.m. main-stage plenary. A listed participant later invited attendees to Hall C.
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Goldberg invited PhD students nearing graduation to discuss collaborating with him and his students on agentic robotics for bimanual manipulation at UC Berkeley’s AUTOLab.
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Ken Goldberg says his team plans to work with Nvidia’s team to integrate Robot Sim Studio (RSS) with Newton for direct use by frontier LLMs.
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UC Berkeley roboticist Ken Goldberg says his team used Astra to build a physics simulation from a short video of a robot wiping ink with a sponge, then developed control code that worked on a real robot.
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A September 28 post advertised tours at 2 p.m. Monday through Wednesday that week, with free tickets to reserve through Eventbrite.
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A user recalls reconnecting over a conversation about the historical progression from Jester to Hot-or-Not, Facebook and YouTube.
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A post previewing IROS 2026 says two UC Berkeley undergraduates will present the active-tracing algorithm on September 29.
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A post describes AI agents designing and fine-tuning robot control systems, with the aim of improving how e-commerce packages are sorted.
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A user sees large-scale real2sim—bringing the real world into simulation—as within reach, noting how hard it once was to imagine OpenAI putting serious resources into 3D/4D.
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One post agrees with the view that “training a specialized model in a data-driven way may already have been overrun.”
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The post says the authors have no previous publications and asks, “Why is it anonymous?”
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A reply says language models could improve with a closed feedback loop, accurate task checks and safety guardrails—but argues the system needed for that setup is still far off.
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The plenary debate is scheduled for September 30, 2026, from 1:30–2:15 p.m. on the main stage, according to the post.
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@scaling01, operator of LisanBench benchmark, made the statement about future AI models.
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Posts question whether a robot video shows teleoperation or true end-to-end autonomy.