Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley and Matei Ciocarlie, Google
Ken Goldberg is the craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media and Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds an appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco. He is an artist, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics and automation.
In his visit to Google he joins a his friend Matei Ciocarlie to discuss "Cloud Robotics", a new paradigm that embraces the Internet. Ken took this concept and applied it to Google Goggles, a cloud-based object recognition platform. By adding grasp-planning information on top of the visual database, he's helping robotic systems not only recognize objects, but also learn ways to grasp and interact with them.
