Google rates heavily on autonomous robots - Aftenposten

Google is known to throw himself on ambitious projects, whatever the cost. The company already experimenting with kvatedatamaskiner, free fiber, eternal life, and Internet access all over the world – to name a few.

Of the more earthy projects they have for several years worked with a self-driving car and now The New York Times reported that the search giant is investing heavily in robotics.

Over the past six months, Google has acquired seven companies developing a variety of robots, from pure machines to more human-like products, and now they have started hiring people to drive the initiative forward.

On the top is Andy Rubin, the man who was responsible for building the mobile platform Android into one of the world’s dominant operating systems. He has also worked as a robotic engineer.

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The New York Times Rubin acknowledges that the plans are ambitious, and he describes the project as a moon landing – while he has great faith in that the time is right to bet big on robots:

– We make hardware and software we create. We create systems so one team will be able to understand all the elements, he said.

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– will be as common as mail cars.

Google has invested heavily in the novel initiative, and through the seven companies Autofuss, Bot & Dolly, Holomni, Industrial Perception, Meka Robotics, Robotics and Redwood Schaft, Google overall have enough technology in place to build a dexterous robot .

In addition to developing the company’s self-driving car, Google has more recently begun to deliver goods on behalf of other companies – such as Target and Walgreens – San Francisco area. Sources in the company said that it is for the transportation as this that Google will initially deploy robots, and not as a consumer product.

Sethu Vijayakumar, professor and director of the robotic department of the University of Edinburgh, said however the BBC that an initiative like this may soon reach us:

– This is a clear sign that it is the eve of personalized robotic technology is making its first foray into the mainstream market, he said.

integrated in everyday life

Rubin explains that the robot commitment goes into Google’s thinking about that machines must be there to help us – without them being wrong in any way.

The same concept is much of the reason that Glass was developed in order to get the technology away from our hands and “integrated” in everyday life in an invisible way. The goal is to create a robotic system that can operate largely on their own.

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