Ryan Hickman (@ryanmhickman) started at Google in 2007, and co-founded Google’s Cloud Robotics group in 2009. When Google acquired Motorola, Ryan worked on Project Tango within Google’s Advanced Technologies and Projects group, and most recently was supporting an effort to explore new hardware device opportunities for kids and families. In 2016, Ryan joined the Toyota Research Institute as an early member of its Product team. Ryan cofounded TickTock AI in February of 2017 to apply a new approach to AI for mobile apps and physical devices, and is currently the CEO. More of Ryan’s writing is available on Medium.
Bloomberg recently reported that Amazon is working on a secret home robot. People keep sending me the link and asking “what do you think Amazon’s robot is going to do”? First, let me be clear that I don’t have any inside info about this. I founded the Cloud Robotics team at Google back in 2010, and ran…
