I think Business Insider misses the point. There will be many robots on the market in the coming times. Diversifying your portfolio does make sense. Also, Googl

I think Business Insider misses the point. There will be many robots on the market in the coming times. Diversifying your portfolio does make sense. Also, Google does have focus in the sense that they make consumer products. If I would work there, I'd create several robots for consumers: * robots that can carry stuff, and yes, that means also staircases (one of my interns is doing that right now) * robots that can clean floors properly, vacuuming, scrubbing, but also cleaning themselves! (we're doing this professionally) * robots that can clean windows, might be quadcopters (we're not that far, we're just spraying paint for now) Regretfully, robots are difficult to sell, so that's why I'm currently creating a revenue stream around indoor localization (which is what we solve all the time for autonomous robots). However, as Google they have plenty of time (5 years) and resources, so they can built awesome stuff. Business Insider is just impatient.