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Re:What's going on with Google robotics? by petra on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @05:07PM (#10542947)
>> They need an intermediate goal, a minimum viable product,

My guess is that they are very careful in causing large jobs disruptions(or appearing as the cause) - without offering huge benefits to consumers, since they don't want to scare people from google.com - so they stay away from industrial/B2B robots. So this leaves them only consumer robots.

Re:What's going on with Google robotics? by mintplant on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @05:21PM (#10543047)
Part of the motivation behind Alphabet, perhaps?