Alphabet has deployed 100+ robots around Google offices to do cleaning and other simple tasks

Google's parent company Alphabet has deployed more than 100 autonomous robots around its offices to do cleaning and run other errands. The robots were developed by Alphabet’s Everyday Robots, a venture in the company’s experimental X division. The robots, which have an onboard AI, are currently doing all kinds of errands like sorting recycling and wiping tables at Google campuses in the Bay area.

Zoom In: The wheeled robots have flexible arms with multipurpose grippers along with cameras and a spinner LiDAR sensor to perceive the environment around them. Everyday Robots aims to create general-purpose robots that “can learn by themselves” and handle multiple tasks in unstructured environments rather than being preprogrammed “to solve just a single problem, in just one environment.” The team imagines a future where machines work alongside humans to simplify everyday tasks.