https://medium.com/utopiapress/googles-re-pivot-robotics-launch-is-a-smart-machine-doers-story-b06f31649b37

Michael K. SpencerBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingMar 31In In 2013, Google started an ambitious, flashy effort to create robots. That didn’t work out so well, so now, in 2019, it’s off to a fresh start. Hardware is seen as the bottleneck of deep learning’s evolution; indeed, the smartest AI company on Earth recognizes that fewer humanoid robots with more sophisticated software is the way to go!

The IoT is coming, 5G is coming and we’ll need robots for that. Remember Andy Rubin? Yeah, that guy! Google has been quietly retooling an ambitious but troubled robotics program (NYT) that was once led by an executive who left the company amid accusations of sexual harassment.