{"id":9232,"date":"2013-12-04T18:38:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9232"},"modified":"2013-12-04T18:38:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:38:13","slug":"googles-humanoid-robots-take-on-amazons-courier-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/googles-humanoid-robots-take-on-amazons-courier-drones","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s humanoid robots take on Amazon\u2019s courier drones"},"content":{"rendered":"
Android developer Andy Rubin leads new robotics division that aims to complete online shopping with home delivery by droids<\/div>\n
Juliette Garside<\/a><\/span><\/span>, telecoms correspondent<\/div>\n
The Guardian<\/a>,
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Online shopping is not the most glamorous aspect of the digital revolution, but it has just become the latest Silicon Valley battleground, with droids racing drones<\/a> to become the courier of the future.<\/p>\n

First Amazon promised to eliminate the drudgery of the post office queue with parcels delivered by drone. Now Google has revealed that it is developing humanoid robots<\/a> that could one day carry groceries to your door.<\/p>\n

Andy Rubin<\/a>, the Google executive who brought smartphones<\/a> to the masses by developing Google\u2019s free Android software, has revealed he is working on a secret project for the search engine company to create a new generation of robots.<\/p>\n

Rubin resigned unexpectedly from running Android in March, and over the past six months has quietly overseen Google\u2019s acquisition of seven small companies whose combined technology could be used to create a robot with animal characteristics such as a form of vision and moving limbs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith robotics it\u2019s a green field,\u201d Rubin told the New York Times. \u201cWe\u2019re building hardware, we\u2019re building software, We\u2019re building systems, so one team will be able to understand the whole stack.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Android developer Andy Rubin leads new robotics division that aims to complete online shopping with home delivery by droids Juliette Garside, telecoms correspondent The Guardian, Wednesday 4 December 2013 13.41 EST Online shopping is not the most glamorous aspect of the digital revolution, but it has just become the latest Silicon Valley battleground, with droids [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}