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Life at X
X is a team of inventors, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs working to make 10X progress against the world’s toughest problems.
The world’s biggest problems can’t be solved with conventional, incremental ways of thinking and behaving.
At X, we’ve learned that breakthrough innovation happens when passionate teams of people have the audacity to challenge each other’s perspectives and aim for the seemingly impossible.
Focus Areas
Focus Areas
Tackling hard problems
One of our mantras is to fall in love with the problem, not the technology. We seek deep understanding of problems that affect millions of people so we can explore creative new approaches to help solve them.
Food Supply
Sustainable nutrition for a growing planet
By 2050, we’ll need to feed 2 billion more people – without further damaging the environment. A mix of better data, machine learning, robotics, and yet-to-be developed technologies may unlock moonshots that help us produce more nutritious food, more sustainably.
Food Supply
Clean Energy
Achieving 100% renewable energy
The production and use of energy is the single biggest contributor to global warming. We’re developing clean energy generation and grid-scale storage solutions to help decarbonize the energy sector and harness the full power of renewables.
Clean Energy
Connectivity
Connecting the unconnected
Billions of people still don’t have reliable, affordable access to the Internet. This is especially true in rural and remote areas, where setting up traditional internet infrastructure can be challenging and costly. X is developing technology to help overcome these barriers and extend connectivity to all.
Connectivity
Mobility
Rethinking how we get from A to B
Getting around could be much safer and more convenient than it is today. X started the self-driving car project to help solve this. It’s now Waymo, an independent Alphabet company working to improve road safety and offer new mobility options to millions of people.
Mobility
Logistics
Taking the friction out of moving goods
It’s never been easier for people and businesses to move goods from place to place, but environmental costs are high and current methods are inefficient. We’re working on technology to make the delivery and tracking of goods faster, cheaper, and more sustainable than what’s been possible before.
Logistics
Health
Advancing life sciences
Much of the human body and brain remains a mystery, creating inherent limits for health care. Recent advances in data science, machine learning, and the miniaturization of sensors may help us better understand, predict, and treat diseases.
Health
Approach
Approach
Finding radical solutions
Our small, focused project teams bring together deep expertise across disciplines and industries, searching for sci-fi sounding ideas and turning them into real-world impact as quickly as possible.
AI and Machine Learning
AI and machine learning specialists work across our projects, bringing perspectives from different backgrounds and applying them to solve real problems.
Robotics
Robotics software and hardware experts are teaching machines new skills to help extend humanity’s capabilities.
Hardware Engineering
Many of the problems we’re tackling are physical in nature, requiring hardware engineers who love dreaming and prototyping things that have never been built before.
Software Engineering
Our software engineers are essential players in projects at X, developing large, complex software systems to take on equally complex problems.
Business Strategy
Strategy and operations teams here lay the foundations for the independent businesses that X projects aim to become.
Operating Principles
Operating Principles
Engineering a cultural moonshot
X is a moonshot in and of itself. Our breakthrough idea isn’t a technology; it’s our people. It’s about designing a culture with the values and practices that can resist the pull towards the comfortable and conventional, and make radical, purpose-driven creativity the path of least resistance.
Experience
Experience
Life at a moonshot factory
There’s no such thing as a “typical day” at a moonshot factory. Some days we’re 3D printing prototypes in our Design Kitchen. Other days we’re out in the field, flying drones in the Australian bush or testing our underwater vision skills in the Arctic Circle. X teams deliberately break away from the routine and ordinary and run toward the unexpected and unknown.