That's actually a good thing - I've done a fair amount of work on autonomous robots (not land) and I'd say that the AI/Machine Learning word is thrown about a l

That's actually a good thing - I've done a fair amount of work on autonomous robots (not land) and I'd say that the AI/Machine Learning word is thrown about a lot for no reason. Many of their challenges can be solved with tried and proven algorithms like rrt star. My personal opinion is that they're a autonomous car company not a research lab, so the focus is indeed correct.