Google’s robot group struggles to fill leadership vacuum as it shoots for ambitious launch before 2020

Nearly two years ago, Google announced a new robotics division that had secretly snapped up almost ten companies. The state of those efforts is now in flux, and the group is in a difficult position as it tries to meet a goal of creating consumer robot technology by 2020. Called "Replicant" internally, the initiative is a collection of roughly ten acquired companies that insiders admit have little in common, with teams scattered across different countries and working on unrelated projects.
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