Ken Goldberg
Professor
Directs the AUTOLAB, studying robot grasping, manipulation and learning from demonstration.
Ken Goldberg's lab at UC Berkeley works on manipulation & robot learning. 70 papers since 2023, 9 at top venues, mostly ICRA. 9 PhD students. 170 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 18/ year
- at T1 venues
- 13%
- PhD students
- 9
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 170
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 11 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 18 papers2025 · T1 0
- 22 papers2024 · T1 0
- 19 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning35 papers
- grasping1 paper
- demonstration1 paper
- robot grasping0 papers
- industrial engineering0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202611 papers
- IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Shenyang, China, August 17-21, . Paper: https://apgoldberg1.github.io/GET_Planning/media/2D_and_3D_Grasp_Planners_for_the_GET_Asymmetrical_Gripper.pdf2D and 3D Grasp Planners for the GET Asymmetrical Gripper
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Seoul, Korea. July 6-13, .CaP-X: A Framework for Benchmarking and Improving Coding Agents for Robot Manipulation
- ICRA (T1)CRAFT: Long-Horizon Cable Routing Algorithm and Low-Friction Caging Gripper
- ICRA (T1)EgoMI: Learning Active Vision and Whole-Body Manipulation from Egocentric Human Demonstrations
- ICRA (T1)IMPASTO: Integrating Model-Based Planning with Learned Dynamics Models for Robotic Oil Painting Reproduction
- ICRA (T1)MonoDuo: Using One Robot Arm to Learn Bimanual Robot Policies
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Seoul, Korea. July 6-13, .OXE-AugE: A Large-Scale Robot Augmentation of OXE for Scaling Cross-Embodiment Policy Learning
- ICRA (T1)RoboSQ: Semantic Queries for Task-Aligned Robot Training Data
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Sydney, Australia, Aug 13-17RoboVista: Evaluating Vision Language Models for Diverse Robot Applications
- Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). To be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vienna, Austria, MaySTITCH 2.0: Extending Augmented Surgical Suturing with EKF Needle Estimation and Thread Slack Management
- IEEE International Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS). 27 Sept - 1 Oct .TRACE: Interactive Bi-Directional Cable Tracing Amid Clutter
202518 papers
- Viewpoint. Science Robotics. 27 Aug“Data Will Solve Robotics and Automation: True or False?” : A Debate
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS). Hangzhou, China. 19-25 Oct .A “Botany-Bot” for Digital Twin Monitoring of Occluded and Underleaf Plant Structures
- IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Los Angeles, CA, Aug 17-21, .Automating Multi-Turn Cable Routing on the NIST Fixture Board with a Bi-Manual Robot and Caging Grippers
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, GA.Blox-Net: Generative Design-for-Robot-Assembly using VLM Supervision, Physics Simulation, and A Robot with Reset
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, GA Shuangyu_ICRA25_RHT_final.pdf Video: ICRA25-720-new.mp4Energy Efficient Planning for Repetitive Heterogeneous Tasks in Precision Agriculture
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). Seoul, Korea, September 27-30, .Eye, Robot: Learning Hand-Eye Coordination with Reinforcement Learning [BCRL]
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, GA.FogROS2-PLR: Probabilistic Latency-Reliability For Cloud Robotics
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Art in Robotics Special Session, Atlanta, GA. * Winner: Undergraduate Student Research Award * Paper: [file]Generative AI and Minimalist Sculpture
- Editorial. Science Robotics. 27 AugGood Old Fashioned Engineering (GOFE) Can Close the 100,000 Year “Data Gap” in Robotics
- IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Los Angeles, CA, Aug 17-21, .GrowSplat: Constructing Temporal Digital Twins of Plants with Gaussian Splats
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, GA. Website: https://icrt.dev/ICRT: In-Context Imitation Learning as Next-Token Prediction
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS). Hangzhou, China. 19-25 Oct .Omni-Scan: A Fixed-Camera Bi-manual Robot System for Gaussian Splat Scanning and 3D Object Inspection
202422 papers
- International Conference on Machine Learning. 27 July , Vienna. Website with paper: https://tactile-vlm.github.io/A Touch, Vision, and Language Dataset for Multimodal Perception
- ** Best Healthcare Automation Paper ** IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Bari, Italy. Aug 28 - Sep 1, . Camera-Ready PDF: CASE2024_SuturePlacement_Camera_Ready.pdf Slide-DeckAutomating 3D Surgical Suture Placement
- IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Bari, Italy. Aug 28 - Sep 1, .Automating Deformable Gasket Assembly
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, UAE. Oct .Paper: IROS_2024_BOMP_CameraReady_v5.pdfBOMP: Bin-Optimized Motion Planning
- International Symposium on Robotics ResearchBreathless: An 8-hour Performance Contrasting Human and Robot Expressiveness
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Yokohama, Japan. May 13-17, . Paper: [file]Cloud-Enabled Lifelong LERF for Semantic Inventory Monitoring
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). Munich. November 6-9, . Video PaperDiffusionSeeder: Seeding Motion Optimization with Diffusion for Rapid Motion Planning
- Yip, Yuke Zhu, Thomas Kollar, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Delft, Netherlands, July . Paper: [file]DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset
- ** Finalist, Best Conference Paper ** IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, UAE. Oct . Paper: [file]FogROS-FT: Fault Tolerant Cloud Robotics
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Yokohama, Japan. May 13-17, . Paper: [file]FogROS2-Config: A Toolkit for Choosing Server Configurations for Cloud Robotics
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Yokohama, Japan. May 13-17, . Paper: [file]FogROS2-LS: A Location-Independent Fog Robotics Framework for Latency Sensitive ROS2 Applications
- Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Seattle, WA, June 17-24, . Camera Ready: garfield_camera_ready.pdfGARField: Group Anything with Radiance Fields
202319 papers
- International Symposium on Medical Robotics (IMSR). Atlanta, GA. April .A Trimodal Framework for Robot-Assisted Vascular Shunt Insertion When a Supervising Surgeon is Local, Remote, or Unavailable
- Camera-Ready PDF file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z1NVofFLNciVJbnBsd3DosuyH6-Blnuh/view?usp=sharing 6-min presentation video (with captions): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b3WdM5o2J2s-Khtrn3eKJaSJm_SwcMaN/view?usp=share_linkAutoBag: Learning to Open Plastic Bags and Insert Objects
- IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Auckland, New Zealand. August 26-30, . ** CASE Best Student Paper Award **.Automating 2D Surgical Suture Placement. suture_placement.pdf Varun Kamat, Viraj
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE). 20(3). April . [pdf]Automating Surgical Peg Transfer: Calibration With Deep Learning Can Exceed Speed, Accuracy, and Consistency of Humans
- ICRA (T1)Automating Vascular Shunt Insertion with the dVRK Surgical Robot
- ICRA (T1)Can Machines Garden?
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Systems (IROS), Detroit, MI. Oct 1-5, . Camera Ready Paper: [file] 5-min Video: [file]FogROS2-SGC: A ROS2 Cloud Robotics Platform for Secure Global Connectivity
- Camera-ready PDF file: [file]FogROS2: An adaptive platform for cloud and fog robotics
- Conference on Robot Learning (CORL), Atlanta, GA, Nov . Paper: [file]HANDLOOM: Learned Tracing of One-Dimensional Objects for Inspection and Manipulation
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 21 (3), 2184-2198. October . Paper: [file]Optimal arrangement and rearrangement of objects on shelves to minimize robot retrieval cost
- IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Auckland, New Zealand. August 26-30, .PolyPoD: An Algorithm for Polyculture Seed Placement ( slides )Varun Kamat, Shre
- IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Auckland, New Zealand. August 26-30, .Push-MOG: Efficient Pushing to Consolidate Polygonal Objects for Multi-Object Grasping
Where alumni went170 listed
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