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In the Lab with Google ATAP: Nonverbal Interactions with Soli Radar

Google launching “In the Lab with Google ATAP”, a documentary series that showcases latest R&D research.

Google launching “In the Lab with Google ATAP”, a documentary series that showcases latest R&D research.

In the first episode “Nonverbal Interactions with Soli Radar” company explore how the combination of new sensing and machine learning techniques can be used to capture the submillimeter motion of our fingers to create expressive and subtle hand gestures to interact with a variety products.

You can find out more about Soli and its capabilities on the official website: https://atap.google.com/soli/.

Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP) is a skunkworks team and in-house technology incubator, created by former DARPA director Regina Dugan. ATAP is similar to X, but works on projects, granting project leaders time—previously only two years—in which to move a project from concept to proven product. According to Dugan, the ideal ATAP project combines technology and science, requires a certain amount of novel research, and creates a marketable product. Historically, the ATAP team was born at Motorola and kept when Google sold Motorola to Lenovo; for this reason, ATAP ideas have tended to involve mobile hardware technology.

The team embodies principles that former Google VP Dugan used at DARPA. One of these principles is to create small teams of high performers. Another is to make use of resources outside the organizational box; ATAP has worked with hundreds of partners in more than twenty countries, including schools, corporations, startups, governments, and nonprofits. Standing contracts are in place with a number of top-flight schools, such as Stanford, MIT, and Caltech, to facilitate rapid research arrangements when needed.

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