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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)

And so I think it was after the lunch or something, I saw you standing over there and I just went over and I said, hey, I love that comment you made. And then we started talking. That's how I remember it. I didn't know anything about you. You must have known Kristen. No. We were just having this fun conversation and you guys were so charming. And then Tiffany came over. Your wife.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Also dazzling and unicorny. Yes. We walked away and she said, you don't know who they were? And I was like, no. And then we had several great conversations at that thing.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Also dazzling and unicorny. Yes. We walked away and she said, you don't know who they were? And I was like, no. And then we had several great conversations at that thing.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Also dazzling and unicorny. Yes. We walked away and she said, you don't know who they were? And I was like, no. And then we had several great conversations at that thing.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Okay, I'm always looking for good. Very comfortable, very playful.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Okay, I'm always looking for good. Very comfortable, very playful.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Okay, I'm always looking for good. Very comfortable, very playful.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

I'm kind of thinking, like, what else was going on?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

I'm kind of thinking, like, what else was going on?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

I'm kind of thinking, like, what else was going on?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

I'm glad you did, because if you had just not said it, it would have been sort of this lingering presence. Yes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

I'm glad you did, because if you had just not said it, it would have been sort of this lingering presence. Yes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

I'm glad you did, because if you had just not said it, it would have been sort of this lingering presence. Yes.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Did they know if you were really planted? Oh, my God. That is brilliant. The elephant panties in the room. Oh, my God.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Did they know if you were really planted? Oh, my God. That is brilliant. The elephant panties in the room. Oh, my God.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

Did they know if you were really planted? Oh, my God. That is brilliant. The elephant panties in the room. Oh, my God.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

So my parents were idealists during the 60s and they were at Penn in Philadelphia and they were going on civil rights marches and things like that. So they wanted to continue that idea of doing things for civil rights. So when they were graduating, they wrote to various people in Africa and they said, we'd love to help.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

So my parents were idealists during the 60s and they were at Penn in Philadelphia and they were going on civil rights marches and things like that. So they wanted to continue that idea of doing things for civil rights. So when they were graduating, they wrote to various people in Africa and they said, we'd love to help.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

So my parents were idealists during the 60s and they were at Penn in Philadelphia and they were going on civil rights marches and things like that. So they wanted to continue that idea of doing things for civil rights. So when they were graduating, they wrote to various people in Africa and they said, we'd love to help.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ken Goldberg (roboticist)

And so one person who ran a school there, and he's actually quite famous in Nigeria, Ty Shelerin, he invited them to come to his school and work for two years. So they basically got over there and there was no running water and no electricity when they got there. So it was very rough and they lived kind of under these circumstances. My dad taught physics and my mom taught English.