Inside Facebook's New Robotics Lab, Where AI and Machines Friend One Another
At first glance, Facebook\u2019s nascent robotic platform looks a bit \u2026 chaotic. In a new lab in its palatial Silicon Valley HQ, a red-and-black Sawyer robot arm (from the recently defunct company Rethink Robotics) is waving all over the place with a mechanical whine. It\u2019s supposed to casually move its hand to a spot in space to its right, but it goes up, up, up and way off course, then resets to its starting position. Then the arm goes right, and gets pretty close to its destination.