Ken Goldberg is at the forefront of robotics — which means he tries to teach machines to do things humans find trivial.

SOURCES:
- Ken Goldberg, professor of industrial engineering and operations research at U.C. Berkeley.

RESOURCES:
- "The Bitter Lesson," by Rich Sutton (UT Austin, 2019).
- R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue, by Karel Capek (2019).
- "The Robot in the Cloud: A Conversation With Ken Goldberg," by Quentin Hardy (New York Times, 2014).
- Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence, by Hans Moravec (1990).
- "Stochastic Plans for Robotic Manipulation," by Ken Goldberg (Carnegie Mellon University, 1990).
- "The Two Cultures And The Scientific Revolution," by C. P. Snow (Cambridge University Press, 1959).
- Dex-Net
- Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology.
- Ambi Robotics.
- "The Telegarden."

EXTRAS:
- "Feeling Sound and Hearing Color," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).
- "Are Our Tools Becoming Part of Us?" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).
- “My God, This Is a Transformative Power,” by People I (Mostly) Admire (2023).
- "Drawing from Life (and Death)" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2023).
- "Aicha Evans Wants You to Take Your Eyes Off the Road," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2021).

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Planetary Radio Extra: A Deep Dive into the New NASA Budget—A New Mission to Europa, But the End of Opportunity?