Google acquires Boston Dynamics, a robotics engineering company

quagmire

quagmire

Allllright !
Google acquires Boston Dynamics, makers of robots as cool as they are terrifying - Boing Boing

Boston Dynamics: Dedicated to the Science and Art of How Things Move.

"Boston Dynamics, a Google company." Wow.
Writes Markoff in the NYT: "Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Mass., has gained an international reputation for machines that walk with an uncanny sense of balance and even — cheetahlike — run faster than the fastest humans."

Nothing could ever go wrong here. I mean, seriously: tell me if you saw one of these things running after you, you wouldn’t crap your pants and have a heart attack at the same time.
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Google buys robotics engineering company Boston Dynamics


PanARMENIAN.Net - Google has acquired robotics engineering company Boston Dynamics, best known for its line of quadrupeds with funny gaits and often mind-blowing capabilities, according to The Verge.
Products that the firm has demonstrated in recent years include BigDog, a motorized robot that can handle ice and snow, the 29 mile-per-hour Cheetah, and an eerily convincing humanoid known as PETMAN. News of the deal was reported on Friday, Dec 13, by The New York Times, which says that the Massachusetts-based company's role in future Google projects is currently unclear.
Specific details about the price and terms of the deal are currently unknown, though Google told the NYT that existing contracts — including a $10.8 million contract inked earlier this year with the U.S. Defense Agency Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — would be honored. Despite the DARPA deal, Google says it doesn't plan to become a military contractor "on its own," according to the NYT.
Boston Dynamics began as a spinoff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992, and quickly started working on projects for the military. Besides BigDog, that includes Cheetah, an animal-like robot developed to run at high speeds, which was followed up by a more versatile model called WildCat. It's also worked on Atlas, a humanoid robot designed to work outdoors.
In a tweet, Google's Andy Rubin — who formerly ran Google's Android division — said the "future is looking awesome."
Rubin earlier this month told NYT that his next big project at Google was to pursue a lifelong love of real robots, something that will be separate from the company's secretive Google X lab best known for "moonshot" projects like balloon-powered internet and self-driving cars. In the meantime, Google's quietly picked up seven different robot companies and hired robotics experts, placing teams in Palo Alto and Japan.
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harshilsharma63

harshilsharma63

DIY FTW!
So will Google deliver phones bought from play Store via bots? Seems like drones/ quadcopters/ bot delivery is gonna become a reality soon.
 
flyingcow

flyingcow

Shibe
this is what boston dynamics does if anyone didnt know
BEHOLD!!
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bubusam13

bubusam13

Human
Networked Robo cops. Police can feed information using their gmail account into the robocops to get the criminals arrested, while police rests at police stations unharmed. Robots will do the job. Robots can instantly upload crime scene photographs in Gogle drive which can be verified later.
So future is near where we can see big fat police all over the world with gamepads in their hand controlling their SURROGATE (as in the movie).

P.S: All police officials must have Google+ account and should be inside State police CIRCLE. Police with Facebook account will be banned. Robots will also display a ad before arresting the criminals.
 
amjath

amjath

Human Spambot
Colin Angle, the CEO of iRobot, is convinced that Google is working on home delivery: a robot drives up in a driverless car, then walks the package up to the door. Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics and Emerging Sciences group at California Polytechnic State University speculates the company is working on the first "social" robots, semi-autonomous machines that help people inside their homes or do jobs like law enforcement and public sanitation in the streets.
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