Why did Google develop robots?

Recently, Google has made frequent moves in the field of robotics and has taken over the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, Inc., a company that develops quadruped robots. In addition to online search, mobile Internet, and wearable search, Google has been working hard in the robot market. What is its motivation? The American technology website TechCrunch sent a document analyzing that Google is a company that is always full of hunger for data, and the source of future data will come from the offline world, and robots will become tools for collecting physical world data.

Some people may ask, does Google still need a robot project? Because the company has taken control of the mobile Internet market, more than one billion smartphones worldwide carry Google's Android system. From the current point of view, the mobile Internet market has no room for significant change, leaving only improved innovation and improvement.

Google also entered the wearable market, launched Google glasses, the company has "card" in advance of the eyes of netizens.

Through the Internet search, mobile Internet, wearable computing and other markets, humans have become consumers of Google's huge data and application services. For example, people need Google to recommend nearby restaurants, provide driving directions, and interact with friends.

TechCrunch pointed out that Google is a data company and the data they need has exceeded the scale of data that humans can collect. In the coming decades, robots will replace humans for more scientific research and other activities such as space exploration, mapping, and manufacturing process changes.

For example, Foxconn and other companies are considering using more robots in the production line, and Amazon and other companies are also brewing the use of unmanned aircraft and other equipment delivery. In the future work and life, humans will see more robots. For example, when people are suffering, home economics robots can help patients to get up or take care of them in their old age.

TechCrunch said that as more and more robots infiltrate into human life, Google also needs to collect data from robotic smart devices. The pioneering investment in robots can help Google to take the lead in a new generation of human-computer interaction. This is similar to Google’s Android system, which has mastered the mobile Internet users' information in advance.

The article pointed out that some people in the industry believe that Android is still very young. At this time, Google does not need to invest heavily in robots, but this view is actually wrong. In fact, the human-robot interactive experience of today's robots is still very bad, and there is still a huge room for improvement.