X , a US secret semi-secret research and development facility established by Google in January 2010 as Google X , operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. X has its headquarters about a mile and a half away from Google's corporate headquarters, Googleplex, in Mountain View, California.
Jobs at X are supervised by business scientist Astro Teller, as CEO and "Captain of Moonshots". The lab began with the development of Google's self-driving car.
On October 2, 2015, after Google's complete restructuring into the Alphabet, Google X became an independent Alphabet company and renamed X .
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Project
X's mission is to create and launch "sailing" technology aimed at making the world a better place radically. A nonsonography is defined by X as the intersection of major problems, radical solutions, and breakthrough technologies.
Waymo (self-driving car)
Waymo is a project by Google that involves developing technology for cars without drivers. In December 2016, Google moved the project into a new company called Waymo, which is placed under Google's parent company Alphabet. The project is led by Google engineer, Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-founder of Google Street View. Tim Thrun at Stanford invented the Stanley robot vehicle that won the DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 and a US $ 2 million span from the US Department of Defense. The team that developed this system consists of 15 engineers working for Google, including Chris Urmson, Mike Montemerlo, and Anthony Levandowski, who has worked on the DARPA Grand and Urban Challenges.
The US state of Nevada passed a law in June 2011 on the operation of a driverless car in Nevada. Google has been lobbying for car legislation without a driver. The license is issued for Toyota Prius modified with Google's experimental driver-less technology. As of March 2016, Google has tested their fleet of vehicles, in autonomous mode, totaling 1,498,214 mi (2,411,152 km).
Loon
Project Loon is a project that aims to bring internet access to everyone by making internet network balloons flying through the stratosphere. It uses wireless routers in balloons that are over the weather and plan to give access to the internet to those who can not reach or need help.
Wing
Project Wing is a project that aims to deliver products to the entire city by using a flying vehicle, similar to the concept of Amazon Prime Air. At the time of the announcement on August 28, 2014, it has been under development on Google for about two years, with full-scale testing being conducted in Australia. Vehicles fly off vertically, then turn to horizontal position to fly around. For delivery, packets float and tow to the ground. At the end of the tethering is a small electronic bundle that detects that the packet has touched the ground, removed from the delivery, and pulled back into the vehicle body. Dropping cargo or landing is found to be unfeasible, as users endanger safety.
Glass
Project Glass is a research and development program by Google to develop a head-mounted augmented reality (HMD) display. The intended purpose of Project Glass products is the display of handsfree information currently available to most smartphone users, and allows interaction with the Internet through natural language voice commands. One glass of Google costs $ 1500.
Barge
In October 2013, the existence of Google's four barges was revealed, with vessels registered under the dummy company By And Large . Two of the barges have superstructures whose construction has been kept under the utmost secrecy, while speculation indicates that they can be used as marketing for, and store for, Google Glass. However, this is just speculation. Others have suggested that it might be used as a floating data center.
Passed projects
- Google Contact Lens, a smart contact lens aimed at helping diabetics by continuing to measure their glucose levels in their tears, was announced by Google on January 16, 2014. The project, a nanodiagnostic project for cancer detection pills, other life is now being done by Truly.
- Google Brain is now an in-depth learning research project on Google that started out as a X project. Considered one of the biggest successes, this one project has generated enough value for Google to more than cover the total cost of X, according to Astro Teller.
- Waymo (see above).
- The dandelion is spun out as a company not under the Alphabet umbrella, which aims to sell the geothermal energy system to consumers.
- Google Watch
- Gcam
- Verily
- Project Insight
- Project Tango
- Flux
- Daydream View
- Chronicle
Explorations
More projects
Projects considered and rejected by X include the space elevators, which are considered currently unfeasible; hoverboard, which is considered too expensive compared to social benefits; jetpack that is safe for users, which is considered too hard and wasteful of energy; and teleportation, found to violate the laws of physics.
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Approach
In February 2016, Astro Teller, X "Captain of Moonshots," gave a TED lecture in which he described the X approach to projects. The unusual characteristics of the approach include continuing to try to find reasons to shut down the project by addressing the most difficult part first, and both celebrate and reward staff when projects are killed for failure.
On May 17, 2018, an internal video titled The Selfish Ledger was leaked by The Verge, about reshaping society through total data collection. A spokesperson stated that "This is a thought experiment by the Design team from last year that used a technique known as 'speculative design' to explore uncomfortable ideas and concepts to provoke discussion and debate.It is not related to current or future front of the product. "
Subsidiaries
A number of companies have been acquired and merged into X, covering a wide range of skills including wind turbines, robotics, artificial intelligence, humanoid robots, robotic arms, and computer vision. In 2013, X acquired Makani Power, a US company that developed wings/overpasses with wind turbines installed to produce low-cost renewable energy. In 2014, the company acquired product design and mechanical engineering company Gecko Design, whose previous products include Fitbit activity tracker and cheap computer. By 2015, X has acquired 14 companies: among them are Redwood Robotics, Meka Robotics, Boston Dynamics, and Jetpac. In June 2017, X sold Boston Dynamics to SoftBank Group.
Campus
A reporter from Bloomberg Businessweek visited the site in 2013 and described it as "a normal two-story red brick building about half a mile from the main Google campus.There is a fountain that flooded in front and a row of used bicycle companies, which used employees to drive to the main campus. "
See also
- Artificial Intelligence
- List of artificial intelligence
- Google Labs
- Skunk work project
References
Reviews on Google X
External links
- Official website
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