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<\/div>\nIn January, Alphabet Inc announced that it was eliminating 6 per cent of its workforce.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Recent layoffs have impacted thousands of workers across the globe. However, it appears that even robots are now a part of it. Alphabet’s newest subsidiary, Everyday Robots, is a team that trained over a hundred wheeled, one-armed robots to clean cafeteria tables, separate trash and open doors. However, Google has announced its closure as a part of budget cuts sweeping the parent company, according to a report in Wired<\/a>.<\/p>\n Denise Gamboa, Director of Marketing and Communications for Everyday Robots, said, “Everyday Robots will no longer be a separate project within Alphabet. Some of the technology and part of the team will be consolidated into existing robotics efforts within Google Research.”\u00a0<\/p>\n It was a subsidiary of Alphabet’s X moonshot lab, a secret research and development facility established by Google in 2010. According to robotics experts, each of its robots is likely to cost tens of thousands of dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n The outlet added that these costs were extremely expensive for Alphabet, whose more speculative “other bets” such as Everyday Robots and Waymo lost $6.1 billion last year. Alphabet’s overall profit fell 21 per cent to $60 billion last year as Google advertising spending slowed. Since then, activist investors have been clamouring for the company to make cuts.<\/p>\n It is to be noted that Alphabet has not disclosed which Everyday Robots assets and team members will be transferred to other research teams.<\/p>\n