Facebook opens a hardware lab, signaling broader ambitions
Model maker Spencer Burns looks over a globe under construction inside a vertical milling machine during a tour of the hardware R&D lab at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook Inc. built its fortune on the Internet, that nonphysical space where people share updates and digital videos with one another. And like Google’s celebrated X lab, where the Internet search giant pursues “moonshot” projects such as self-driving cars, Facebook’s new research facility demonstrates that in Silicon Valley, leading tech companies are rarely content to keep doing the same thing. “When you think about connecting the world, you have to build different types of hardware to help people connect,” said Jay Parikh, Facebook’s head of engineering and infrastructure. The lab will be a space for engineers to design energy-efficient servers for Facebook data centers, test new laser mounts and drone propellers and perfect a prototype 360-degree video camera that Facebook unveiled in April. In recent speeches, he outlined a 10-year vision for Facebook that includes services based on virtual reality, artificial intelligence and Internet access for the world’s most underdeveloped regions.
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