Google, the father of Android is working on robots - Computer Point

Mountain View experimented to automate supply chains: the Big G has already acquired a handful of companies specializing in robotics

Rome – Google opens the doors to the robot: this is the new idea of ??the Big G for the future production and distribution services.

guide the research program that would bring robotics in Mountain View is Andy Rubin, one of the fathers of Android: the new research group will have labs in Palo Alto and an office in Japan, and a perspective of at least ten years.

Investment in the sector by Google have gone at least since 2009 when Mountain View has advertised a project with the center of a car that does not need chauffeur. Over the past six months, then, Google has acquired seven companies Japanese and U.S. , all specializing in robotics.

These are producers of Meka humanoid robots, Robotics and Redwood Schaft, a spin-off of the University of Tokyo, Industrial Perception, start-up in stars stripes working on a computer vision system and has developed robotic arms for loading and unloading trucks, Bot & Dollu, manufacturer of robotic camera systems that has worked among other special effects for the film Gravity , of Holomni, a small company that manufactures wheels and high-tech company Design Autofuss.
The idea of ??the new project Google search is not to introduce new devices androids on the market, but of employ robots in the production phase in order to automate processes that currently still see the use of human labor , such as electronic assembly.

In addition, the robots seem intended to be used in delivery: in a sense, in direct competition with Amazon, who in recent days had attracted attention in anticipation of the project Prime Air that involves the use of quadricotteri to deliver the packets to thirty minutes of purchase online.

Google has already started to try some cities in their own service delivery , Google Shopping, and the automation of the process is – as explained Rubin – a long-term perspective and an opportunity not to be missed . The distribution chain is in fact a sector still highly humanized and then each experiment is an opportunity to change things radically, a process that deserves a project and a vision of at least ten years.

Claudio Tamburrino