AIR 012 | It turned out that Google gave up Boston power for this reason

Foreign guests participating in the event, with Yobie Benjamin in the middle and Vijay Kumar on the left

The GAIR Global Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Summit in Shenzhen is just over a quarter of the past two days. At the international docking event CCF-GAIR, the world’s top production, research and development salon, renowned entrepreneurs, investors and engineers from the United States, Yobie Benjamin, expressed the real reason why Google gave up its acquisition of the robot company Boston Dynamics .

He believes that the real reason for Goolge to give up is that the product is not mature enough. Although everyone has seen a video robot/dog does not fall, the actual situation is far from smooth.

The first is that the noise is too loud and loud noises can be heard in the experiment;


Secondly, stability is not enough. Although everyone sees it in the video as well as in the mountains, in actual tests, it often falls on the ground and cannot stand on its own.

He said.

"It didn't work!" he concluded. "If the robot is used to transport important supplies on the battlefield, it is likely to fall somewhere on the road."

In contrast, he is more optimistic about Carnegie Mellon University's small robot The Worm (worm), "very quiet, and can go to very narrow places for search and rescue or military operations."

Another guest, Vijay Kumar, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania and academician of the American Academy of Engineering, said, “I don’t want to speculate on why this complex big company like Google gave up a robot project, but I’d like to emphasize that it’s not so While denying the robotics industry, there are indeed many critical issues that robots need to solve, and there are many opportunities for them, and the problems that robots that need to deal with the natural environment (such as Boston Dynamics) need to solve are better than autopilots and drones. These are much more difficult."

As for the story of Boston Power and Google, media broke out on March 18 this year. Google, the parent company of Alphabet, plans to abandon the robot program and sell Boston Dynamics, a robot manufacturer with less than three years of acquisition.

On February 23, before that, Boston Dynamics released a video on YouTube about the company's new achievements, which has attracted a lot of attention around the world. The industry began to have a variety of discussions about why Google would do this, and even began to doubt the future of multi-legged robots.


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