Even the robots don’t have job security at Google parent Alphabet. The tech giant pulled the plug on high-priced automatons — which separated trash and squeegeed cafeteria tables — created ...

Alphabet Inc GOOG GOOGL Google this Friday disclosed its new artificial intelligence model that translates vision and language into robotic actions. Robotics Transformer 2, or RT-2, is a first-of ...

The Everday Robots team developed and trained more than 100 one-armed robots on wheels that could "squeegee cafeteria tables, separate trash and recycling," and open doors, among other capabilities.

The news: Alphabet X, the company’s early research and development division, has unveiled the Everyday Robot project, whose aim is to develop a “general-purpose learning robot.” The idea is ...

Alphabet says its Everyday Robot team at X is now testing its prototype machines in Google’s offices. The bots are performing light custodial work as Alphabet slowly pursues its goal of building ...

Alphabet has another subsidiary, Intrinsic, that is working on industrial robots, and layoffs there were limited to about 20 percent of its staff. “In a home, you can't just put magnetic strips ...

As we reported in our 2016 Google preview, Alphabet's robot division is in a bit of a mess. The division was started inside Google by Android cofounder Andy Rubin, ...

A two-legged robot capable of climbing stairs—and even cleaning them—has been developed by a subsidiary of Google's parent company, Alphabet. The unnamed robot, built by Japanese robotics firm ...

The Boston Dynamics unit of Alphabet Inc. released a video showing a new version of its humanoid robot Atlas walking out of its offices, trudging through a snow-covered forest -- and withstanding ...