# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-goldberg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:02:53.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-goldberg"
name: "Ken Goldberg"
slug: "ken-goldberg"
description: "Kenneth Yigael Goldberg is an American artist, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics and automation. He is professor and chair of the industrial engineering and operations research department at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Berkeley, with joint appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), Art Practice, and the School of Information. Goldberg also holds an appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco."
tagline: "American roboticist, professor, artist, writer and inventor (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ken-Goldberg-Apr-2019-med-res.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-10-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.79
  momentum:             4.014447884416924
  historical:           5.048888
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%BA%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%BA"
    title: "كين غولدبرغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Goldberg"
    title: "Ken Goldberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Goldberg"
    title: "Ken Goldberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Goldberg"
    title: "Ken Goldberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%82%AF%C2%B7%E6%88%88%E5%BE%B7%E5%A0%A1"
    title: "肯·戈德堡"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6387683"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump