{"id":138428,"date":"2021-11-21T06:28:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T06:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=138428"},"modified":"2021-11-21T06:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T06:28:34","slug":"alphabet-uses-prototype-robots-to-clean-google-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/alphabet-uses-prototype-robots-to-clean-google-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet uses prototype robots to clean Google offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.company\/blog\/posts\/everyday-robots\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that its Everyday Robots Project for universal learning robots has reached another milestone.\u00a0The company has delivered some prototypes to the Google Bay Area campuses, where they will perform a number of simple tasks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_138429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-138429 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/alphabet_every_day_robot_cleaning_offices.gif\" alt=\"Alphabet uses prototype robots to clean Google offices\" width=\"700\" height=\"386\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alphabet uses prototype robots to clean Google offices<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The robots in question will be cleaning.\u00a0They are capable of performing tasks such as sorting trash, dusting flat surfaces, and more.\u00a0The Everyday Robots team in 2019 taught a robot to recognize garbage for sorting, but then the machines were not yet able to navigate in an unstructured space such as a home or office.<\/p>\n<p>The prototypes are flexible, multifunctional manipulators on wheels.\u00a0They are equipped with cameras and computer vision sensors and a rotating lidar that determines the position of the robot in space.\u00a0By launching prototypes into its offices, Alphabet is trying to solve the problem facing leading robotics developers: teach robots to work in a new environment and perform a variety of tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has\u00a0announced\u00a0that its Everyday Robots Project for universal learning robots has reached another milestone.\u00a0The company has delivered some prototypes to the Google Bay Area campuses, where they will perform a number of simple tasks. The robots in question will be cleaning.\u00a0They are capable of performing tasks such as sorting trash, [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/alphabet-uses-prototype-robots-to-clean-google-offices\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":138430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-138428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}