Ken Goldberg

And it's programmable. So then you can make a whole bunch of them over and over again. And that's still used, by the way, very heavily. And then what's the next big leap forward? There's a lot of fear around that time that robots are going to take over. In the newspaper, there's all these articles that they're going to do all the work, but that doesn't happen.

And it's programmable. So then you can make a whole bunch of them over and over again. And that's still used, by the way, very heavily. And then what's the next big leap forward? There's a lot of fear around that time that robots are going to take over. In the newspaper, there's all these articles that they're going to do all the work, but that doesn't happen.

And it's programmable. So then you can make a whole bunch of them over and over again. And that's still used, by the way, very heavily. And then what's the next big leap forward? There's a lot of fear around that time that robots are going to take over. In the newspaper, there's all these articles that they're going to do all the work, but that doesn't happen.

And the first robotics conference is in 1984. Then there's a big research field that starts to grow around robotics. But then it started really taking off in factories, especially automotive. The big thing that it's used for is welding. And spray painting. The welding's awesome. Yeah, the welding's fun because you get those sparks. It's like little pinches just come in, boom, boom, boom, right?

And the first robotics conference is in 1984. Then there's a big research field that starts to grow around robotics. But then it started really taking off in factories, especially automotive. The big thing that it's used for is welding. And spray painting. The welding's awesome. Yeah, the welding's fun because you get those sparks. It's like little pinches just come in, boom, boom, boom, right?

And the first robotics conference is in 1984. Then there's a big research field that starts to grow around robotics. But then it started really taking off in factories, especially automotive. The big thing that it's used for is welding. And spray painting. The welding's awesome. Yeah, the welding's fun because you get those sparks. It's like little pinches just come in, boom, boom, boom, right?

And welding sheet metal is very hard to do. For humans. You burn right through it so easy. Right, so it's very delicate, but then you're just basically doing the same thing over and over again. So it's repetitive, and that is very good for factories and also some of the assembly, putting together various devices and appliances and things like that. That's a big wave.

And welding sheet metal is very hard to do. For humans. You burn right through it so easy. Right, so it's very delicate, but then you're just basically doing the same thing over and over again. So it's repetitive, and that is very good for factories and also some of the assembly, putting together various devices and appliances and things like that. That's a big wave.

And welding sheet metal is very hard to do. For humans. You burn right through it so easy. Right, so it's very delicate, but then you're just basically doing the same thing over and over again. So it's repetitive, and that is very good for factories and also some of the assembly, putting together various devices and appliances and things like that. That's a big wave.

And that's also happening in Japan and other places. So that's growing, the industrial robotics. And the biggest breakthrough is now in 2012 in the breakthrough of deep learning and AI.

And that's also happening in Japan and other places. So that's growing, the industrial robotics. And the biggest breakthrough is now in 2012 in the breakthrough of deep learning and AI.

And that's also happening in Japan and other places. So that's growing, the industrial robotics. And the biggest breakthrough is now in 2012 in the breakthrough of deep learning and AI.

Let me back up a little bit, which is that when I did my PhD, I was interested in this incredibly simple problem of just trying to pick up objects just to grasp. It's something everybody does. Babies do it. I was actually clumsy as a kid. I later thought maybe that's why I wanted to study that. But it's still an open problem.

Let me back up a little bit, which is that when I did my PhD, I was interested in this incredibly simple problem of just trying to pick up objects just to grasp. It's something everybody does. Babies do it. I was actually clumsy as a kid. I later thought maybe that's why I wanted to study that. But it's still an open problem.

Let me back up a little bit, which is that when I did my PhD, I was interested in this incredibly simple problem of just trying to pick up objects just to grasp. It's something everybody does. Babies do it. I was actually clumsy as a kid. I later thought maybe that's why I wanted to study that. But it's still an open problem.

Robots to pick things up.

Robots to pick things up.

Robots to pick things up.

What is it? Oh, yeah, yeah. Moravec. There we go. There we go. Okay. So Moravec was actually at CMU when I was there. He was this very eccentric guy. And he wrote this book and he was saying it's a paradox that what's easy for robots, like lifting a heavy car, is hard for humans. But what's easy for humans, like stacking some blocks, that's hard for robots. And that's still true today.

What is it? Oh, yeah, yeah. Moravec. There we go. There we go. Okay. So Moravec was actually at CMU when I was there. He was this very eccentric guy. And he wrote this book and he was saying it's a paradox that what's easy for robots, like lifting a heavy car, is hard for humans. But what's easy for humans, like stacking some blocks, that's hard for robots. And that's still true today.