All these modern-day kids have iPad and iPod touch apps to learn the alphabet. My kindergarten class had a box of these Alphabet Robots for our grimey, snot-ridden hands to play with. With just one or ...

Google's Alphabet is adding yet another chapter to its rollercoaster history of robotics projects. The company's R&D lab, dubbed Alphabet X, is working on a new breed of robots that can learn new ...

During a recent visit to Alphabet’s X lab, I drained my coffee and left the compostable cup on a tray marked “Cans & Bottles.” The transgression was soon mended. Twenty minutes later, a wheeled, ...

Teach a robot to open a door, and it ought to unlock a lifetime of opportunities. Not so for one of Alphabet’s youngest subsidiaries, Everyday Robots. Just over a year after graduating from Alphabet’s ...

Even the robots don’t have job security at Google parent Alphabet. The tech giant pulled the plug on high-priced automatons — which separated trash and squeegeed cafeteria tables — created by robotics ...

Alphabet’s public-facing history with robotics has, thus far, been a spotty one. Most notably, Google X’s big acquisition push culminated in its selling Boston Dynamics to SoftBank (who eventually ...

Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) DeepMind units unveiled two artificial intelligence models on Wednesday in an effort to allow robots to perform “a wider range of real-world tasks than ever ...

We’re still a long way from Robby the Robot though We’re still a long way from Robby the Robot though is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Google’s ...

Schaft, the Alphabet (Google) owned robotics company, has this week unveiled a new bipedal robot at a Japanese robotics conference, providing a first glimpse of what the company has been developing ...