Google has the Future Figured out
Google has been lately working on a lot of products which they believe can change as well as shape our future. A lot of their investments and capital is going into the development of these products. They have created a whole new team of scientists, entrepreneurs and inventors which they like to call, X.
Google’s X is actually a huge multi million dollar project where they create revolutionary new technologies to solve world’s most arduous problems. Working with the latest and the most advanced technologies present to create even more advanced stuff. They dig deep into topics like Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Humanoids, Super Computation, Energy Generation, Robotic Machinery, Bio Sciences, Cyber security and basically everything that can ensure you a better future.
Since its inception in 2010 X has developed many products, some of them are:
1) Self-Driving Cars: Mostly everyone today knows about Google’s Self driving car which proves to be a milestone in this industry being the most advanced and successful. Not many know that it was developed by X under the project name “Waymo”.
2) Providing Internet: By some way or other Internet is changing an impacting our lives in a huge way possible, to some extent that we can’t even think of living or working without it. X is working under the project name “Project Loon”, towards developing weather balloons which will provide internet and Wi-Fi services to the most remote areas we can imagine even with the harshest topographies.
3) Smart Glasses: A project which is long due from Google is the smart glasses. The “Glass Enterprise Edition” project is where the X team is working on, however it’s basically more focused on the manufacturing and Field Workers’ use instead of the general public. It’s basically a glass which can fit into any helmet or shield that the worker must be using and providing information there on the glass only so as to maintain the focus of the worker. This will result in a much more precise and effortless work.
4) Artificial Intelligence: A subsidiary of X, “Google Brain” is responsible for all the AI and ML work that Google does. Brain’s team applies their insights to various Google products, enhancing them and making them more user friendly. Ranging from Google Translate, Android’s speech recognition system, search in Google Photos, video recommendations in YouTube, and more, bringing benefits of Artificial Intelligence to everyone.
5) Delivery Drones: Ever wondered from where Amazon got the idea of delivery drones? It was Google X who first proposed this project of creating UAV drones for delivery. Project named “Wing”, works for the development of these drones and increasing the access of goods to people even in the most remote places. These are self-flying drones flying at approximately 400ft from ground and using Machine Learning to find their way to the destination. They were also used in the floods that happened in the US last year, to provide food and supplies.
· Here are some useful links to their amazing website where you can check out more of their projects-
1. Google X
2. Google AI
