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Ken Goldberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
660 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

That it's in the back of our minds that if we do this, there's going to be some price to pay. It's going to run amok. And that's the story with Frankenstein, right? It runs amok. And then the golem story, it precedes Frankenstein. In the 14th century, a rabbi, there was a lot of pogroms in this little village. So he makes a robot out of clay, just a being out of clay.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

That it's in the back of our minds that if we do this, there's going to be some price to pay. It's going to run amok. And that's the story with Frankenstein, right? It runs amok. And then the golem story, it precedes Frankenstein. In the 14th century, a rabbi, there was a lot of pogroms in this little village. So he makes a robot out of clay, just a being out of clay.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

He puts these words on his forehead that bring it to life. Oh. And then it goes around and it basically defends against all the bad guys and defends the community. But then when it's done, he's like, well, now why don't you go fetch some water for me? Then he goes to sleep. Anyway, he wakes up and he's drowning because the robot just keeps fetching water over and over again.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

He puts these words on his forehead that bring it to life. Oh. And then it goes around and it basically defends against all the bad guys and defends the community. But then when it's done, he's like, well, now why don't you go fetch some water for me? Then he goes to sleep. Anyway, he wakes up and he's drowning because the robot just keeps fetching water over and over again.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

He puts these words on his forehead that bring it to life. Oh. And then it goes around and it basically defends against all the bad guys and defends the community. But then when it's done, he's like, well, now why don't you go fetch some water for me? Then he goes to sleep. Anyway, he wakes up and he's drowning because the robot just keeps fetching water over and over again.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

And he has to stop it, but he doesn't know how. So he then reaches up and he wipes off the words on the forehead and the golem collapses on top and kills him. Wow.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

And he has to stop it, but he doesn't know how. So he then reaches up and he wipes off the words on the forehead and the golem collapses on top and kills him. Wow.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

And he has to stop it, but he doesn't know how. So he then reaches up and he wipes off the words on the forehead and the golem collapses on top and kills him. Wow.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Yeah, no, no, it's actually really good. So the Industrial Revolution, with the invention of the steam engine and all those things, all the machinery starts coming out. And so Henry Ford is definitely part of the assembly line and the car, but robots actually also start at Ford. There are some very early robots in the late 50s, early 60s. They're like a programmable robot. machine.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Yeah, no, no, it's actually really good. So the Industrial Revolution, with the invention of the steam engine and all those things, all the machinery starts coming out. And so Henry Ford is definitely part of the assembly line and the car, but robots actually also start at Ford. There are some very early robots in the late 50s, early 60s. They're like a programmable robot. machine.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Yeah, no, no, it's actually really good. So the Industrial Revolution, with the invention of the steam engine and all those things, all the machinery starts coming out. And so Henry Ford is definitely part of the assembly line and the car, but robots actually also start at Ford. There are some very early robots in the late 50s, early 60s. They're like a programmable robot. machine.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

And so you can basically tell it to go from point A to point B. And so it's very primitive. But they're in like the World's Fair and people start talking. Oh, and by the way, the word robot is coined in 1920. By a sci-fi writer? Yeah. By a sci-fi writer. It's actually a playwright in Czechoslovakia. So interestingly, it's right around the time of the pandemic, the 1918 pandemic.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

And so you can basically tell it to go from point A to point B. And so it's very primitive. But they're in like the World's Fair and people start talking. Oh, and by the way, the word robot is coined in 1920. By a sci-fi writer? Yeah. By a sci-fi writer. It's actually a playwright in Czechoslovakia. So interestingly, it's right around the time of the pandemic, the 1918 pandemic.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

And so you can basically tell it to go from point A to point B. And so it's very primitive. But they're in like the World's Fair and people start talking. Oh, and by the way, the word robot is coined in 1920. By a sci-fi writer? Yeah. By a sci-fi writer. It's actually a playwright in Czechoslovakia. So interestingly, it's right around the time of the pandemic, the 1918 pandemic.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

And also, I think significantly, Sigmund Freud wrote this essay called The Uncanny in 1919. So a year later, this play comes out about essentially robots. That's where the first time this word has ever been used.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

And also, I think significantly, Sigmund Freud wrote this essay called The Uncanny in 1919. So a year later, this play comes out about essentially robots. That's where the first time this word has ever been used.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

And also, I think significantly, Sigmund Freud wrote this essay called The Uncanny in 1919. So a year later, this play comes out about essentially robots. That's where the first time this word has ever been used.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Yeah, robot, which means worker or forced worker in Czechoslovakia.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Yeah, robot, which means worker or forced worker in Czechoslovakia.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Yeah, robot, which means worker or forced worker in Czechoslovakia.