Google Buys Into Robotics

Google is getting into robotics! How do we feel about that?

Google buys robotics company Boston Dynamics

San Jose Mercury News – “The New York Times is reporting that Google has confirmed its purchase of engineering and robotics company Boston Dynamics.

Boston Dynamics is best known for developing prototype robots for the Pentagon and other high-profile clients that experiment with new types of robotic motion.

Google did not comment to the Times on how much it paid or how the company’s robotic expertise would be used, but they are likely to join in the Internet giant’s existing robotics efforts led by Android founder Andy Rubin.

Here are some of the concept robots that Boston Dynamics has created since its founding in 1992, many times with funding from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.”