Ken Goldberg
William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley AI Research Steering Committee,
Chief Scientist I Ambi Robotics
United States
Ken Goldberg developed the first provably complete algorithm for part feeding and the first robot on the Internet. In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Faculty Fellowship and in 2005 was elected IEEE Fellow: "For contributions to networked telerobotics and geometric algorithms for automation."
Ken founded UC Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture public lecture series in 1997, and serves on the Advisory Board of the RoboGlobal Exchange Traded Fund. He is on the Editorial Board of the journal Science Robotics, served as Chair of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department and co-founded the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
Short documentary films he co-wrote were selected for Sundance and one was nominated for an Emmy Award.
Ken founded UC Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture public lecture series in 1997, and serves on the Advisory Board of the RoboGlobal Exchange Traded Fund. He is on the Editorial Board of the journal Science Robotics, served as Chair of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department and co-founded the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
Short documentary films he co-wrote were selected for Sundance and one was nominated for an Emmy Award.
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The Food Sovereignty Agenda: Capital and the Intelligent Factory03-Nov-2026Foodtech Summit
