“In a top-secret lab in an undisclosed Bay Area location where robots run free, the future is being imagined. Sergey Brin, one of Google’s founders, is said to be deeply involved in Google X. It’s a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low. Your dinner plate could post to a social network what you’re eating. Your robot could go to the office while you stay home in your pajamas. And you could, perhaps, take an elevator to outer space.”