Why hasn't the dream of having a robot at home to do your chores become a reality yet? With three decades of research expertise in the field, roboticist Ken Goldberg sheds light on the clumsy truth about robots — and what it will take to build more dexterous machines to work in a warehouse or help out at home.

The more that robots ingrain themselves into our everyday lives, the more we're forced to examine ourselves as people. At TEDxBerkeley, Ken Goldberg shares four very human lessons that he's learned from working with robots.

Ken Goldberg is an artist, inventor, and UC Berkeley Professor. He is Director of the CITRIS "People and Robots" Initiative and the UC Berkeley AUTOLAB where he pursues research in machine learning and automation in surgery and manufacturing. Ken developed some of the first successful algorithms for the first robot on the Internet, and spends ...