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Re:AI and Robotics in Agriculture in Japan [video] by Animats on Thursday June 08, 2017 @03:54PM (#14516728)
They dominated the first DARPA robotics challenge because of this and got bought up by Google.

Which screwed them up. That still annoys me. Google bought up most of the leading robotics startups in 2013 and ran them into the ground. I wonder what happened to the people. Did they end up in other parts of Google, probably working on making people click on ads?

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Re:AI and Robotics in Agriculture in Japan [video] by jayjay71 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @10:04PM (#14518712)
Many of them left. Some are still there working on things related to robotics, such as Verb Surgical. I'm sure a few became more traditional software engineers, although I don't know any personally.
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