Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots
The company recently laid off thousands of human employees—it is also shutting down a unit working on robots that learned to open doors and clean tables.
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The company recently laid off thousands of human employees—it is also shutting down a unit working on robots that learned to open doors and clean tables.
A little over two years after its public debut, Mineral is becoming its own Alphabet company after graduating from the X “moonshot” labs.
Google researchers believe natural language processing and AI will allow robots to develop their own code to respond to new instructions.
This is an interesting one - Google's Palm-SayCan research into companion robots in a real-world environment and the use of language to best control them.
THE WASHINGTON POST – Researchers at Google’s lab recently asked a robot to build a burger out of various plastic toy ingredients. The mechanical arm knew enough to add ketchup after the meat and before the lettuce but thought the right way to do so was to put the entire bottle inside the burger. While […]