#Google Already Testing Delivery Robots In Australia In rural Australia a drone delivers dog treats to a farmer.
The robot is a proof of concept part of#Project Wing by Google X. The program is designed to show that delivery drones are possible
#Next for Google: figuring out the path from proven#prototype to everyday utility. The drone is a tail-sitter taking off vertically with its body perpendicular to the ground.
Google s driverless car program is an obvious touchstone for this project but it s a limited one.
Still Google s development and prior experience with cars is a strong sign that this work will continue and ultimately yield fruit.
Michael Toscano CEO of#the Association for Unmanned Vehicle systems International said thatit s worth noting that Google tested this technology in Australia first.
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#Google commits $1. 36 billion for NASA facility, to house their robotics, space and flight technologies Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures has committed to a 60-year $1. 16 billion lease of the 1000 acre Moffett Field Naval Air station.
The agreement includes an additional $200 million to refurbish the hangars and improve the site with a museum and educational facilities.
This news comes on the heals of Google investment in Magic Leap last month as well the announcement of Andy Rubin departure r
#Google news: Rubin leaves; Pichai promoted to#2; and Google invests in Magic Leap Andy Rubin leaves Google;
Sundar Pichai promoted to#2 man at Google; and Google invests in $542 million B funding for Magic Leap.
Andy Rubin the Google executive who was in charge of the company#s robotics group and spearheaded the Android operating system before that resigned fromâ Google
and will start a tech incubator focused on hardware. According to the NY Timesâ Mr. Rubin#s departure is part of a series of recent executive moves that seem to give Mr. Page more room to focus on the company#s longer-term bets#like robotics
#while handing almost allâ the responsibility for Google products to Sundar Pichai a rising star.
 The robotics group will now be led by James Kuffner who has been at the company since 2009 and has worked on self-driving cars a Google spokesman said.
Regarding James Kuffner who replaces Rubinâ The Wall street journal saidandy Rubin former leader of Google#s Android mobile businessâ oversaw a series of robotics acquisitions last year
so his departure comes at a poor time for the company. Â That puts pressure on Kuffner to bring together disparate Google properties like Boston Dynamics and Schaft.#
#Robotics is still a difficult technology to pull off well I think moreso than many or all tech fields#said Michael Wagner a senior commercialization specialist with the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie mellon University.#
#James has the expertise to navigate traps others with less experience may not expect. So I don t think this is a setback at all.#
#Sundar Pichai becomes Google Product Chief. The NY Times said of the promotion: Sundar Pichai is to oversee every major Google product except Youtube.
The move arguably makes Mr. Pichai the second-most powerful person at the company and is intended to give Mr. Page more time to focus on more futuristic projects according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
and Chrome products along with Google Apps like Google docs and Gmail#will now include Research Search Maps the social media network Google Plus along with Commerce.
Much interest within the robotics community has been focused on Google acquisitions in the area of robotics
because Google hasn said anything about what they are doing. So many start-ups#Â So much talent#What their long-term goal?
Hence the interest in whereâ Google is focusing. Some of that focus has been on acquiring learning system companies (and talent.
Thus it was no surprise that Google participated in the recent $542 million B funding round for the start-up Magic Leap a Florida start-up thatâ claims to merge the physical and digital worlds with hardware
#Google adds to Deepmind, acquiring 2 UK startups and partnering with Oxford U In January 2014 Google acquired London-based Deepmind Technologies for $643 million.
Now it is adding to that purchase with two more companies ten new hires and a substantial contribution to Oxford university.
Google Deepmind was a British AI start-up with some high-profile investors and a whiz kid founder (Demis Hassabis) and theirâ forte was smart recommendations for online commerce.
According to the Financial times the two acquisitions are estimated to have cost Google Deepmind $50 million. The Google-Oxford partnership will cost more.
A substantial contribution to Oxford university is forthcoming to expand Google AI and deep learning capabilities.#
#Google Deepmind has hired all seven founders of these startups with the three professors holding joint appointments at Oxford university where they will continue to spend part of their time#Hassabis notes in his blog post.#
#These exciting partnerships underline how committed Google Deepmind is to supporting the development of UK academia
and the growth of strong scientific research labs.#f you liked this article you may also be interested in:
Hellospoon Youtube channelhellospoon bloghellospoon Twitterplease support the Hellospoon robot campaignâ-Â inviting other people to support this development will be amazing to t
 Dyson#s mysterious video posted on Youtube (below) heralds a 4 september release. The only piece of information to accompany it reads:#
Google#s automotive patent portfolio is relatively small at 35 families. Most of Google#s patents were published very recently in 2013 with the earliest being only in 2010.
The rate of publishing for Google shows clear increase so further patents should be anticipated. Â The report also shows collaboration within industry groups.
For example Google and Honda are contained very self in contrast to other automotive companies. Most of the patents in the UK dataset are in the field of autonomous vehicles includingâ road vehicles unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned underwater vehicles.
Roboticsâ companies in the UK dataset have very small portfolios with the largest being Notetry (5â families)
Google new purpose-built self driving car Google completed a major step in its long and extensive self-driving cars project by presenting its first purpose-built autonomous car
or brake pedals#and you can ride it strictly as a passenger which is probably a strange feeling but according to Google video not entirely unpleasant.
Google will make about a hundred prototypes and it looks like it a very serious effort. It is equipped with multiple sensors (a big LIDAR on its roof is probably doing most of the work)
Thanks to Google previous experience with self-driving cars one can expect very good performance in real environments;
other Google self-driving cars have completed hundreds of thousands miles with no major incidents. The car itself may look like a toy
This is a very clever move from Google that aspires to overcome the legal and ethical problems of who should be able to drive
Google will launch a small pilot program in California in the next couple of years. The prototypes released on public roads will have manual controls for obvious legal reasons
Read the full post in Google official blog here. It worth mentioning that similar concepts
but its main feature was the interior where similarly to Google car no manual controls were present
but like many people can afford to attend it looks like you can still bid for a much cheaper telepresence opportunity on ebay.
Bid on Ebay to attend the History of Wearables & Google glass exhibit at CHI (proceeds go to the CHI student travel grants).
#Google getting more roboticists with Nest acquisition Is Google getting a robot company? Or just another source of roboticists with the Nest acquisition that was announced today?
The small sampling of roboticists Iâ##ve spoken to who are employed at Google have shed little light on future plans
Perhaps Google is collecting libraries and IP instead in the same way that Wolfram is talking about owning the database of the internet of things.
Google is to buy Nest Labs Inc. for $3. 2 billion in cash. Nest launched in 2011 with a smart thermostat
and maintain a distinct brand identity but as a part of the Google stable. Forâ more information from Nestâ as to the transition.
Larry page CEO of Google said: â##Nestâ#founders Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers have built a tremendous team that we are excited to welcome into the Google family.
Theyâ##re already delivering amazing products you can buy right nowâ##thermostats that save energy
â##Weâ##re thrilled to join Google. With their support Nest will be placed even better to build simple thoughtful devices that make life easier at home
and that have a positive impact on the world. â#Colin Angle CEO of irobot described Google recent acquisitions as a logistics play around self driving vehicles
and that when Google solved the first mile/last mile problem irobot was planning on meeting them at the house door.
There are plenty more robotics companies left for Google to acquire but if I were looking it would be interesting to consider Unbounded and Otherlab.*
#Google buys up robotics companies from DRC If youe recently wondered where all the roboticists were going the answer is to an unassuming complex in Palo alto. Google has backed Android developer Andy Rubin to acquire at least 7 major robotics
Weâ##re building systems so one team will be able to understand the whole stack. â#Google hasn announced yet
The vision is clearly to capitalize on the DARPA Grand Challenges as Google has done so thoroughly with the automobile/self driving challenge.
Google has purchased a number of teams and people involved in the upcoming DARPA Robotics Challenge
#Play-i want to bring a robot to every child After receiving a $1million seed fund round from investors like Google Ventures many of us have been waiting for Play
Play-i are based a Silicon valley startup with a founding team from Amazon Google frog design and Apple;
and at Google annual flagship conference Google IO in San francisco. Still it takes a lot of time
and recovers easily thanks to new algorithm In August 2014 Google x announced that they had been secretly developing a drone delivery program to rival Amazon Prime Air.
however, Google scrapped the design, saying that it was difficult to control and didn perform well in high winds.
perhaps Google should not dismiss the tailsitter design too quickly for its next design iteration.
Google earlier this year debuted a feature for its Translate app that allows people to pair any two of 38 language options for translation,
#Google Self-Driving Cars Ready for Public roads Google announced Friday its self-driving prototype cars were ready to leave the test track
The move comes after Google's internal testing of the bubble-shaped vehicle over the past year
"The Google car uses the same technology as its fleet of Lexus SUVS which has logged some 1. 6 million kilometers (one million miles)."
In Google's home town of Mountain view, speeds will be limited to 40 kilometers (25 miles per hour "and during this next phase of our project we'll have safety drivers aboard with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal,
"Google said earlier this week its adapted vehicles on the road had been involved in 11 minor accidents, but that none were the fault of the technology.
"Prominent equity investor Marc Andreessen, one of the founders of Netscape during the dot-com era, expressed similar concerns in a series of tweets last year, saying too many startups are"burning
but this produced a Google and an ebay and a number of other standouts.""Peter Barris at the venture firm New Enterprise Associates said investment is flowing
$12 billion The private space exploration firm founded by tech entrepreneur Elon musk announced in January that it raised $1 billion in a round led by Google and Fidelity Investments.
so your average Youtube uploader can learn if captioning is worth the cost. To do so, the company drew on third-party data on thousands of Youtube videos that showed significant increases in viewership with the addition of captions.
When given a video link the calculator crawls the user's channel to tally viewership of noncaptioned videos and, based on that data, estimates the boost in traffic and search-engine optimization,
What the EU says Google is doing wrong The European union slapped Google Inc. with antitrust charges Wednesday,
The EU says Google is unfairly favoring its own comparison-shopping service in general search results.
a coffee mug would find Google Shopping results for mugs displayed at the top of the search page,
The EU says part of the reason for competing sites'low rankings is applied that Google different parameters to comparison-shopping services,
The EU pointed out that a previous Google shopping site called Froogle did not use a favorable system
The current Google Shopping product which allegedly uses the favorable system, is experiencing higher growth.
Also under investigation is Google's smartphone operating system, Android. The EU is looking in whether the company is giving smartphone makers unfair incentives for preinstalling Google's applications,
such as the Chrome Web browser and Youtube. The EU is also continuing a formal investigation into concerns that Google copies rivals Web content and places undue restrictions on advertisers a
#Using composite material samples, NRL scientists predict aspects of F/A-18 performance The U s. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has built a robot to pull, bend,
and twist samples of the composite materials used to build F/A-18s and other aircraft.
In what can be described as the Netscape moment for agriculture technology, the sector had a breakout year in 2014,
Founders Fund, Li-Kai Shing Horizons Ventures, Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Marc Benioff (Salesforce), and Eduardo Saverin (Facebook).
It just added investment from Intel capital to the money from GE, A16z, Kleiner, First Round, Google Ventures,
#Google Launches Cloud Bigtable, A Highly Scalable And Performant Nosql Database With Cloud Bigtable, Google is launching a new Nosql database offering today that,
but with the added twist that it compatible with the Apache HBASE API which itself is based on Google Bigtable project.
Bigtable powers the likes of Gmail, Google search and Google analytics, so this is definitely a battle-tested service Google promises that Cloud Bigtable will offer single-digit millisecond latency
and 2x the performance per dollar when compared to the likes of HBASE and Cassandra. Because it supports the HBASE API
but it also supports Google Cloud Dataflow. Setting up a Cloud Bigtable cluster should only take a few seconds,
It worth noting that this is not Google first cloud-based Nosql database product. With Cloud Datastore, Google already offers a high-availability Nosql datastore for developers on its App Engine platform.
That service, too, is based on Bigtable. Cory Oonnor, a Google Cloud platform product manager, tells me Cloud Datastore focuses on read-heavy workload for web apps
and mobile apps. loud Bigtable is much the opposite is designed for larger companies and enterprises where extensive data processing is required,
and at Google and Apple campuses. Theye racked up some impressive investors including Tim cook and Eric Schmidt.
Facebook, Google and Microsoft are pouring billions into VR/AR research and acquisitions, and dominate headlines with each new build.
along with a Youtube video. The feat was accomplished using a system allowing the brain o bypass the injured spinal cord
along with a Youtube video. The feat was accomplished using a system allowing the brain to bypass the injured spinal cord
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while a first pulse excites the sample under study, a second pulse monitors the change in the sample.
#EPGL Challenges Google in Smart Contact lens Revolution EP Global Communications, Inc. announces a challenge to Google to confirm it is speed up to with EPGL in the smart contact lens revolution.
A year ago, Google announced with great fanfare that it had developed a smart contact lens for monitoring glucose levels.
Google also announced that they possess technology for an"Autofocus"contact lens. Various executives from Google were quoted as saying that smart contact lenses could help millions of people in the future
and other technology writers and industry executives have predicted a multi-billion dollar market is coming.
EPGL fully agrees with Google on this point. EPGL has several patents pending now in the smart contact lens arena
Today, EPGL is issuing a challenge to Google to update the world on their smart contact lens progress
EPGL is challenging Google to make an announcement by August 31, 2015 that it has solved for the critical Silicone Hydrogel mass market production challenges as EPGL has."
"Google is an incredible company with incredibly talented engineers and executives. We have nothing but respect for them,
And more recently, Sundar Pichai took over as chief executive of Google-a role many said had been years coming.
Fans remain largely confused as to why Tidal even exists it offers streaming music at twice the price of Google, Apple, and Spotify.
I take my respectpharrell even told me go with the safest betjimmy Iovine on for the safety netgoogle dig around a crazy checki feel like Youtube is the biggest culpritthem n---pay you a 10th of what you supposed to getyou know I came in this game independent right?
they ain say s---Jay z suggested that Google offered him money to partner with its own streaming service,
but hinted that he was upset with music appearing on Youtube (and the diminished revenue he receives from it).
Multiple sources confirm that Google Wallet saw a jump in payment volume following the launch of Apple Pay.
and why the fledgling mobile payments feature is sure to be a success. Provides a quarterly update on the mobile payments industry including analysis of Softcard, Google Wallet, Currentc, Paypal, and Looppay.
according to the Wall street journal. They pushed massive amounts of traffic to Github by redirecting overseas users of the popular Chinese search engine Baidu Inc,
A Beijing-based Baidu spokesman said a thorough investigation had determined it was neither a security problem on Baidu's side nor a hacking attack."
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Google patents a way for autonomous vehicles to understand hand signals A Google patent has revealed that the firm self-driving cars will be able to detect
Google announced its self-driving cars would be capable of doing this last year, but the latest patent reveals new details about how it would work.
Google algorithms can then decide whether a cyclist is present, and then identify parts of his or her body.
HOW DOES GOOGLE'S AUTONOMOUS CAR WORK? Google's prototype two-seater'bubble'cars have buttons to begin and end the drive,
but no other controls. An onboard computer uses data from sensors, including radar, a laser and cameras,
Under the vision unveiled by Google, passengers might set their destination by typing it into a map
and the ability to self-drive will depend on specifically designed Google road maps tested on the company's current fleet of vehicles.
and will be able to use Google's extended maps service, using GPS technology to locate the vehicle's exact position on an electronic map.
leaving open different possibilities for exactly how Google self-driving cars could work. Google says it begun discussions with most of the world's top automakers in a bid to get self-driving cars on the road by 2020.
In March, a separate patent revealed that Google's self driving car could have airbags both inside and out.
It shows an external airbag system in action that inflates if the car hits a pedestrian or other object.
The head of self-driving cars for Google expects real people to be using them on public roads in two to five years.
and Google would collect data on how they interact with other vehicles and pedestrians. Google is working on sensors to detect road signs and other vehicles,
and software that analyzes all the data. The small, bulbous cars without steering wheels or pedals are being tested at a Google facility in California.
Urmson wouldn't give a date for putting driverless cars on roads en masse saying that the system has to be safe enough to work properly.
He told reporters at the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit that Google doesn't know yet how it will make money on the cars.
Google may face state regulatory hurdles depending on where it chooses to test the cars in public.
Under legislation that Google persuaded California lawmakers to pass in 2012, self-driving cars must have a steering wheel and pedals.
A Youtube video is opened in the background featuring a song used in a fictional radio station in the game Grand Theft Auto V.'We believe that the crypto ransomware uses social engineering techniques as a means of infecting victims'
#Audi, Mercedes and BMW hit back at Google and Appple: Firms buy Nokia's map business in bid to beat tech firms with self driving cars and navigation German carmakers BMW,
known as HERE, clubbing together to keep the assets away from Internet rivals such as Uber of Silicon valley and China's Baidu and Tencent.
their parts suppliers and software rivals like Uber, Google or Apple.''With the joint acquisition of HERE, we want to secure the independence of this central service for all vehicle manufacturers,
'There is a risk that the other automakers will be pushed further into the arms of Google, 'said Richard Windsor an independent financial analyst who tracks major tech players.
'It comes just weeks after Google has admitted it's self driving cars are being hit'surprisingly often'by other drivers
'said Google's Chris Urmson. The three Google employees on board complained of minor whiplash, were checked out at a hospital
and cleared to go back to work following the July 1 collision, Google said. The driver of the other car also complained of neck and back pain.
The simulation shows Google's car being rear ended at 17mph at a junction in Mountain view after stopping at a red traffic lightin a blog post
he says the problem has been common.''Our self-driving cars are being hit surprisingly often by other drivers who are distracted and not paying attention to the road.'
'New data released by Google reveals other drivers have hit the firm's cars 14 times since the start of our project in 2009,
It comes as the latest version of Google's self-driving car-a pod-like two-seater that needs no gas pedal
Google says. The technology giant's mission is to have driverless cars available to consumers in the next five years.'
'Google said.''They're ultimately designed to work without a steering wheel or pedals, but during this phase of our project we'll have safety drivers aboard with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal,
And the pod can only drive in areas that have been mapped thoroughly by Google. At first it will likely even have a steering wheel
But Google is lobbying for more flexible regulations. Google will initially build and test 25 pods,
mostly in neighborhoods surrounding its Mountain view headquarters. It will eventually build between 50 and 100,
The ultimate goal, says Google cofounder Sergey Brin, is controlled computer cars that can eliminate human error,
Google shocked the auto industry in 2010 with its announcement that it was working on a driverless car.
Brin insists Google doesn't aspire to be a car company, but wants its technology to be adopted by automakers.'
Chris Urmson, who directs Google's self-driving car project, says the slow-moving, friendly looking prototype-his young son thinks it looks like a koala because of the nose-like black laser on the front-is a good bridge between the company's current test fleet of 20 specially outfitted Lexus SUVS
Earlier this week, in response to questions from The Associated press, Google acknowledged 11 minor accidents in the six years it has been testing autonomous cars.
and notes that Google's vehicles have completed more than 1. 7 million miles of testing. He says all but one of the accidents were caused by drivers in other cars;
in the only incident caused by a Google car, a staffer was driving in manual mode.
Urmson says Google needs to do a better job of educating people about self-driving technology and updating them on Google's progress.
and the site will feature a monthly report that will include details of any accidents involving Google cars.
The prototype cars-assembled in suburban Detroit by Roush Industries-have the same array of radars, lasers and cameras as Google's fleet of Lexus SUVS,
the head of software for the self-driving car project, says Google's software has gotten much better over the last year at classifying objects, like trees and mailboxes,
For example, Google's cars will slow down if they sense that a car in the next lane is speeding up to cut in front of them.
And in one recent test, a Google car paused when a cyclist ran a red light.
one of Google's Lexus SUVS seemed momentarily confused when a mail truck partially blocked its path.
Later, during a demonstration drive in Google's parking lot, the prototype-without a wheel or pedal-braked
like the time a Google SUV stopped and waited while a woman in a wheelchair chased a duck with a broom.
Google isn't alone in developing self-driving cars. Mercedes-benz Infiniti and other brands already have advanced driver assistance systems, like lane keeping and adaptive cruise control,
Unlike Google, automakers think self-driving cars will arrive feature-by-feature instead of all at once, giving people plenty of time to adapt to autonomous driving.
says Google's'moon shot'strategy is difficult and riskier than just adding features to existing cars.
Google could make self-driving urban pods for universities or urban centers, for example, or sell its technology to automakers.
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