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Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body
As the head of Alphabet’s AI-powered robotics moonshot, I came to believe many things. For one, robots can’t come soon enough. For another, they shouldn’t look like us.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin kept trying to offer guidance and direction during occasional flybys in their “spare time.” Astro Teller, the head of Google X, had agreed a few months earlier to bring all the robot people into the lab, affectionately referred to as the moonshot factory. Living in Oslo, Norway, my mom had good public health care; caregivers showed up at her apartment three times daily to help with a range of tasks and chores, mostly related to her advanced Parkinson’s disease. Once you start thinking carefully about all this, you realize that unless you lock everything down, really tight, with all objects being in fixed, predefined locations, and the lighting being just right and never changing, simply picking up, say, a green apple and placing it in a glass bowl on a kitchen table becomes an all but impossibly difficult problem to solve.
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