There was an Israeli startup that tried to do this ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modu ) and apparently Google acquired some

There was an Israeli startup that tried to do this ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modu ) and apparently Google acquired some of that IP. I wonder if this effort is related.