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Closing the 100,000 Year “Data Gap” in Robotics

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Ken Goldberg reveals how real-world robot deployments and AI can help bridge the 100,000-year data gap between robotics and language models—unlocking the path to general-purpose robots.

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Closing the 100,000 Year “Data Gap” in Robotics
Closing the 100,000 Year “Data Gap” in Robotics

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06 Jun 2025, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm GMT+2

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Closing the 100,000 Year “Data Gap” in Robotics

Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley and Ambi Robotics


Large models based on internet-scale data can now pass the Turing Test for intelligence. In this sense, data has "solved" language, and many analogously claim that data has solved speech recognition and computer vision. Will data also solve robotics and automation, allowing general-purpose humanoid robots to achieve human-level performance? Using commonly accepted metrics for converting word and image tokens into time, the amount of internet-scale data used to train contemporary large vision language models (VLMs) is on the order of 100,000 years.  I’ll review 3 ways researchers are pursuing to close this gap, and a 4th approach, where data is collected as real robots operate in real commercial environments -- which requires bootstrapping with AI and "good old-fashioned engineering" to create robots with real return on investment that will be adopted by industry.  Such robots can create a "data flywheel" to increase performance and enable new functionality, accelerating the timeline to achieve reliable, general-purpose robots.

Speaker Biography

Ken Goldberg is co-founder of Ambi Robotics and Jacobi Robotics and William S. Floyd Distinguished Chair of Engineering at UC Berkeley, where he leads research in robotics and automation: grasping, manipulation, and learning for applications in industry, homes, agriculture, and robot-assisted surgery.  Ken is President of the Robot Learning Foundation and Chair of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab Steering Committee. http://goldberg.berkeley.edu

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