Blog 3 : Next level to Automation

After Amazon's drones, Google proposes robots to deliver packages at your doorstep 

If Amazon can imagine delivering books by drones, is it too much to think that Google might be planning to one day have one of the robots hop off an automated Google Car and race to your doorstep to deliver a package? 

Robotic vision is a "moonshot", but it appears to be more realistic than Amazon's proposed drone delivery service which was recently revealed by Jeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO.

Google has been on an acquiring spree over the last half year. It has acquired 7 technology firms to create a new generation of robots. The techie who is heading the effort is none other than Andy Rubin, the techie whose brainchild is the Android operating system.

 At least for now, Google's robotic effort is not something aimed at consumers. Instead, the company's expected targets are in manufacturing - like electronics assembly, which is now largely manual - and competing with companies like Amazon in retailing. Perhaps in the future there will be automated droids making delivery at your doorstep, but that still has a long way to go.

Source : Economic Times

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/26837041.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

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