The Xerox/AT&Ts of today, as those of the past, are the big tech monopolies (roughly FAANG + Microsoft).
microsoft. maker of drab and mundane on-prem office automation machines that generate more problems than they solve and are cursed the world over during their frequent and often humorous malfunctions.
ms research (who do really cool stuff) is their xerox parc
I work at xerox PARC and we do IoT. Another group does 3d printing and others are doing various types of engineering and ai/ml.
Is there a group working on 3d printing artificial muscles?