Everyday Robots (Alphabet X)

A general-purpose robot project from Alphabet's X lab, shut down in 2023.

This was a general-purpose robotics project incubated at X, Alphabet's “moonshot factory,” aiming to get robots to learn a wide range of tasks in unstructured environments like homes and offices, rather than being programmed task by task. The team built its own wheeled, single-arm mobile manipulator, deployed in fleets around Google offices to wipe down tables, sort trash, and open doors, trained at large scale using cloud-based simulation. Its biggest impact was academic: work done with Google Research, including SayCan and RT-1, used these robots to collect data and run experiments, and the RT-1 data was later folded into Open X-Embodiment. The project was shut down in early 2023 during Alphabet layoffs, with some people and technology absorbed into Google's robotics research, which later became part of Google DeepMind.

ExampleThe RT-1 paper's 13 robots and roughly 130,000 demonstrations were collected on Everyday Robots' mobile manipulators.

Also called

Everyday Robot Project, Google X Everyday Robots Project

Related

Everyday Robots Mobile Manipulator · Google DeepMind · RT-1 · SayCan · Open X-Embodiment

Sources

X, the moonshot factory: Everyday Robots

As of

2023-01