Why did Google not buy "ROS"? (Was Re: FK and Jacobian calculation in RTT)

On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:

> On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 11:19:24 AM Herman Bruyninckx wrote:
>> Off topic: would anyone care to speculate on the importance of the
>> observation that Google bought more or less all robotics companies in the
>> US, _except_ the ROS-driven ones...?
>
> Google being a software company (and Rubin already being in the software
> world), I personally believe that it is simply something they did not feel
> they needed to acquire.

My interpretation is that Google wants to focus on more "mechatronics"-like
robotics, for which ROS has no added value, and the "Android" ecosystem
indeed already has a lot more to offer.

For me it is also very relevant that Rethink was _not_ bought; I presume
because of the low "mechatronics" performance of its hardware... (compared
to what companies like Boston Dynamics, Bot&Dolly, and Shaft can realise).

All just speculations, of course :-)

> Dr. Ing. Sylvain Joyeux

Herman
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