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Re:Just own the damn robots by jameshart on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:15PM (#15495022)
The robots are not literally robots in this story. Trading algorithms are robots. Uber's ability to connect riders and drivers is a robot.

That said, Amazon and google are in the robot hardware business literally, too.

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Re:Just own the damn robots by robotresearcher on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @07:47PM (#15495905)
Amazon is, but their customer is themselves. They use 50,000 robots today and that will grow fast.

Google doesn't sell robots. I don't know if they use them, apart from a few for research.

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Re:Just own the damn robots by ThomPete on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @10:14PM (#15496401)
Their web spider is a robot. We are far past the time when humans could catalog that much change.
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Re:Just own the damn robots by TrickyRick on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:51AM (#15497735)
A self driving car is a robot, they will be selling that in a near future if Google themselves are to be believed.
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Re:Just own the damn robots by robotresearcher on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:00AM (#15499659)
Oops yes of course. I stupidly forgot about them. They spun them out from the Google brand and also my brain.
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