Even the robots don’t have job security at Google parent Alphabet. The tech giant pulled the plug on high-priced automatons — which separated trash and squeegeed cafeteria tables — created by robotics ...

Amid layoffs at Google and the tech industry at large, one group of workers at parent company Alphabet that didn't survive economic headwinds? The robots that helped clean the company's cafeterias, ...

Teach a robot to open a door, and it ought to unlock a lifetime of opportunities. Not so for one of Alphabet’s youngest subsidiaries, Everyday Robots. Just over a year after graduating from Alphabet’s ...

In training demonstrations last year, the robots responded to someone saying they were hungry by getting a bag of chips for them. Now, it looks like they will be no more. Google’s parent company ...

Alphabet’s Everyday Robots subsidiary will no longer exist as a discrete unit, with team members and technology folded into other divisions. It’s a disappointing end for another robotics venture.