But those same people, in recent months, have begun asking why, nearly a decade after hiring
top roboticists to build its project, Google has not delivered something to market.
Drawing inspiration from the leafcutters, Eliseo Ferrante, a
roboticist at the University of Leuven in Belgium, and colleagues designed robots whose objective was to gather cylindrical blocks — the analog of leaves — at the
top of a ramp and return them to a «nest» area at the bottom.