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The Modular Design and Production of an Intelligent Robot Based on a Closed-Loop Control Strategy
Published on: October 14, 2017
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Good old-fashioned engineering can close the 100,000-year "data gap" in robotics
1Ken Goldberg is the president of the Robot Learning Foundation, Mill Valley, CA, USA; chair of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab Steering Committee, Berkeley, CA, USA; a cofounder of Ambi Robotics, Berkeley, CA, USA and Jacobi Robotics, Emeryville, CA, USA; and the William S. Floyd distinguished chair of engineering at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Science Robotics
|August 27, 2025
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Well-established model-based methods or good old-fashioned engineering can bootstrap learning-based robot systems.
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