The renegade future of Google's ATAP lab. Regina Dugan on her plan to redesign wearables, develop modular phones, and kill the password. by Dieter Bohn on May 29, 2015 at 12:15 p.m.. R egina Dugan ...

For ATAP, that's meant getting folded into Google's broader hardware group, which makes everything from smartphones to streaming video TV dongles, and which is overseen by Rick Osterloh, ...

The company’s ATAP research team is using radar to help computers respond to your movements, like turning off a TV if it senses you've dozed off.

Yet ATAP hit snags, even before its boss left. Project Ara lost its director , then said its shipments were delayed . Another big DARPA hire, security researcher Peiter Zatko, departed last summer .

Gesture-based system are usually attached to video game consoles like the Microsoft Kinect or your computer like the Leap Motion. Google's ATAP team figured that the smaller form factor of the ...

Google’s ATAP lab envisions a world where the company’s hardware is as uncannily smart as its best software. Here’s how it plans to get there.