Google Just Bought A Company That Builds Crazy Walking Robots For The Military

[Jesus Malverde]

Source: SFGate

Google just bought Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon, reports The New York Times.

Boston Dynamics is based in Waltham, Mass.

The company creates "machines that walk with an uncanny sense of balance and even — cheetahlike — run faster than the fastest humans," says The Times.

Google is not saying how much money it paid for Boston Dynamics, and said that it does not plan to release financial information on any of the other eight robotics companies it has purchased in the last 6 months.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Google-Just-Bought-A-Company-That-Makes-5064154.php

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You can see some of the stuff they've unveiled here...

http://www.youtube.com/user/BostonDynamics?feature=watch

This is about as creepy as it gets..

the times piece http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/technology/google-adds-to-its-menagerie-of-robots.html?_r=0

The deal is also the clearest indication yet that Google is intent on building a new class of autonomous systems that might do anything from warehouse work to package delivery and even elder care.

[MyNameGoesHere]

1. With all the geeks working at Google

you would have thought one or two of them has seen Battlestar Galactica. It doesn't end well for the humans.

[Jesus Malverde]

2. They've all seen terminator and know the fable of skynet...nt

[jsr]

3. Your tax money built that company

via DARPA funding.

[JDPriestly]

4. I would like to have a robot to clean my house.

[starroute]

5. You could get a roomba -- they're also good as cat transportation

[Marrah_G]

6. So Mass will probably lose another tech company now

[mwrguy]

7. Google is now a military contractor

Lovely.

[Jesus Malverde]

8. They were before, working for the NSA.

They have a long history of involvement with the government. The scum owners of google, own 747's as personal planes. They worked out a deal, with the government to park them at moffit field a naval air station run by NASA in mountain view california. They are the only billionaires allowed to park their planes there.

They also get their gas for these behemoth private planes subsidized by the tax payer. One wonders how google returns the favor to the government for this largess and subsidy of millions.


Questions Arise Over Google’s Use Of Moffett Field In Mountain View

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/05/17/questions-arise-over-googles-use-of-moffett-field-in-mountain-view/