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The robots are not literally robots in this story. Trading algorithms are robots. Uber's ability to connect riders and drivers is a robot. That said, Amazon an
by jameshart 9y ago
The robots are not literally robots in this story. Trading algorithms are robots. Uber's ability to connect riders and drivers is a robot.
That said, Amazon and google are in the robot hardware business literally, too.
- robotresearcher 9y agoAmazon is, but their customer is themselves. They use 50,000 robots today and that will grow fast. Google doesn't sell robots. I don't know if they use them, apart from a few for research.
- ThomPete 9y agoTheir web spider is a robot. We are far past the time when humans could catalog that much change.
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- TrickyRick 9y agoA self driving car is a robot, they will be selling that in a near future if Google themselves are to be believed.
- robotresearcher 9y agoOops yes of course. I stupidly forgot about them. They spun them out from the Google brand and also my brain.