Looking fwd to “Art, Artifice, and AI,” a conversation with @ChristianePaul2
, Curator of Digital Art, Whitney Museum of Art, 6:30-8:30pm, Thursday, March 12, Where: di Rosa Museum in San Francisco. Tickets $15 (sliding scale): https://
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Art, Artifice, and AI Conversation at di Rosa Museum
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AI Proactivity and Personality: Senior Care Robot Case Study
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I’ve been thinking about AI being proactive—tricky to get this right….and how it could fine-tune its personality….an interesting case study: To Stay in Her Home, She Let In an A.I. Robot https://
nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/
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Wizard vs MMA Champion in Epic Humanoid Robot Battle
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This should be wild! I’ve heard rumors that a local middle-school wizard will be matched against an MMA champion: both piloting @UnitreeRobotics humanoids in an epic battle to the last blip. https://t.co/LCHfjNRe4v
— Ken Goldberg (@Ken_Goldberg) 6 février 2026This should be wild! I’ve heard rumors that a local middle-school wizard will be matched against an MMA champion: both piloting @UnitreeRobotics humanoids in an epic battle to the last blip.
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Ken Goldberg Offers 5 Free Tickets to Sold-Out Robotics Talk
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My talk tonight at 7:30 at Manny’s in SF is sold out but I have 5 comp tickets available for the first 5 people (or molts) that send me an email w/ subject: Robotics Talk at Manny’s:
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Industrial Applications Need Combined Approach with Domain Demos and Model-Based Control
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Fully agree that industrial use cases will require some combination of in-domain demos (and model-based / GOFE perception and control elements) for the foreseeable future.
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AI Compared to the Americas in the 15th Century: Uncertainty and Exaggeration
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Nice analogy: AI is like the Americas in the 15th century: "And if you lived in Europe, your only way to assess the possibilities was through dispatches from adventurers with every incentive to hype them."
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ICRA 2026 Paper Decision Notifications and Reviewer Appreciation
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Decisions on @ieee_ras_icra #ICRA2026 papers are trickling out…Thanks to program chairs, committees, and reviewers for completing a huge amount of reviewing right on schedule.
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Tesla Transitions from Cars to Robots Production Focus
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Well-written article by @Hadas_Gold @CNN about @Tesla switching from cars to robots:
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Quantifying Progress in Robotics Discussion
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Glad that @chris_j_paxton is thinking along similar lines! : https://
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ManipulationNet: Cable Routing Benchmark for Robotics Research
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Help measure progress in robotics research: a specific & verifiable physical benchmark for cable routing, part of a broader ManipulationNet effort by Kaiyu Hang (Rice U) and Kenny Kimble (NIST) and others from MIT, Berkeley, CMU, Columbia, UT, Tsinghua…https://t.co/srdu31HXhv pic.twitter.com/O2et7Mc99I
— Ken Goldberg (@Ken_Goldberg) 29 janvier 2026Help measure progress in robotics research: a specific & verifiable physical benchmark for cable routing, part of a broader ManipulationNet effort by Kaiyu Hang (Rice U) and Kenny Kimble (NIST) and others from MIT, Berkeley, CMU, Columbia, UT, Tsinghua… https://
manipulation-net.org/tasks/cable_ro
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