After recently letting go of thousands of people worldwide, Google is now firing the machines that kept the cafeterias clean at its corporate headquarters. According to a recent Wired article, Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly terminated Alphabet’s “Everyday Robots” project, which was a part of Google’s experimental X laboratories. Google has terminated 100 robots that were employed to clean cafeterias, to put it another way.
As part of the project, more than 100 wheeled, one-armed robots were trained to clean cafeterias, sort recyclables from trash, and unlock doors. Right now, these robots are being fired. Denise Gamboa, the project’s director of marketing and communications, has said that everyday Robots will no longer be an independent Alphabet project.
Everyday Robots had risen from the ashes of at least eight Google robotic acquisitions ten years earlier. The initiative allegedly has a long history of conflict about whether its goal should be to undertake ground-breaking research or to introduce a new product. Robotics experts calculated that Google spent a lot of money hiring more than 200 people, and that the robots likely cost thousands of dollars each.
An ex-employee who was questioned said that he is sorry to see it close. He said that generally, robots could do essential functions. He doesn’t think it’s an indication of stagnation. He also talked about how important it is to focus correctly. If someone gets it right, they might have a useful product on the market in five years.
Robots started to appear in their daily lives
During the past few years, Google has been creating a hardware and software system that works together to support learning, such as the transfer of knowledge from the digital to the real world. With time, the robots became more aware of their environment. Using a number of machine learning techniques, such as reinforcement learning, cooperative learning, and learning from examples, they also became better at doing routine jobs.
