Google's parent is infusing robots with artificial intelligence so they can help with tasks like lending a supporting arm to the elderly, or sorting trash.

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 ...

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 ...

Moonshot projects like Everyday Robots have panned out for Alphabet in the past, with Google Fiber and Nest thermostats being the most prominent examples.

As we reported in our 2016 Google preview, Alphabet's robot division is in a bit of a mess. The division was started inside Google by Android cofounder Andy Rubin, who aimed to quickly get the ...

Alphabet has launched its latest X moonshot company, Intrinsic, with the goal of making industrial robots more practical for many people.

A two-legged robot capable of climbing stairs—and even cleaning them—has been developed by a subsidiary of Google's parent company, Alphabet.

Alphabet says its Everyday Robot team at X is now testing its prototype machines in Google’s offices. The bots are performing light custodial work as Alphabet slowly pursues its goal of building ...

Amid layoffs at Google and the tech industry at large, one group of workers at parent company Alphabet that didn't survive economic headwinds? The robots that helped clean the company's cafeterias ...

Tech giant Alphabet’s (GOOGL) DeepMind unit has revealed two new artificial intelligence models that are designed to improve the capabilities of robots. The models, which are known as Gemini ...

The Everyday Robots department had trained 100 one-armed, wheeled robots to help clean the company’s cafeterias.