Alphabet Everyday Robots, Google: Everyday Robots victim of cuts
Alphabet is ending its Everyday Robots project, another casualty of job cuts at parent company Google and the latest in a long list.
Everyday Robots will no longer exist as a distinct group within the tech giant. “Everyday Robots will no longer be a separate project within Alphabet,” said Denise Gamboa, director of marketing and communications for Everyday Robots.
Some of the technology and some of the team will be integrated into existing robotics efforts within Google Research.
Everyday Robots was launched in 2019, with the goal of designing armed robots that could help in domestic and landscape settings. taking on light janitorial duties such as sorting trash and cleaning tables.
The project’s prototype, one-armed, wheeled robots have been tested in Google offices since 2021, and in 2022 they received an upgrade thanks to Google’s linguistic AI research, allowing them to process natural language commands.
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