Pieter Abbeel, Robert Full, and Ken Goldberg will speak at TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics 2018

Three EECS professors are featured speakers at the upcoming TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics on May 11 at Zellerbach Hall.  The single-day event will focus on the crossroads of the latest AI and robotics technology and the startup ecosystem.  Prof. Pieter Abbeel, who works in machine learning and robotics (and who co-founded  covariant.ai and Gradescope), will talk about “Teaching Robots New Tricks with AI.”    Prof. Robert Full, who has a joint appointment in the Department of Integrative Biology (and who founded of CiBER), will talk about “What Robots Can Learn from Nature.” Prof. Ken Goldberg, who holds appointments in IEOR, the School of Information, Art Practice, and the UCSF Dept of Radiation Oncology, will talk about “Getting A Grip on Reality: Deep Learning and Robot Grasping.”  He is the co-founder of the Center for New Media.  Alumnus Paul Birkmeyer (Ph.D. ’13), co-founder of Dishcraft Robotics, is also slated to speak.