Andy Rubin is the engineer heading Google’s robotics effort. He is the man who built the Android software for smartphones.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times PALO ALTO, Calif. — In an out-of-the-way Google office, two life-size humanoid robots hang suspended in a corner. If Amazon can imagine delivering books by drones, is it too much to think that Google might be planning to one day have one o
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