The nut appears to be this: “From then on, we started doing a lot of work with Google,” says Majusiak. “We did almost all of their hardware integration. They w

The nut appears to be this: “From then on, we started doing a lot of work with Google,” says Majusiak. “We did almost all of their hardware integration. They were just doing software. We’d get the cars and develop the controllers, and they’d take it from there.” Anybody who has done robotics knows there is a lot of integration involved (hardware and software), and that doing integration is hard and tends to be thankless. It's nice to see some in-depth reporting in a major publication on the full depth of the engineering team.