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12/16/2013

 
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Google has acquired the engineering company that developed Cheetah, the world's fastest-running robot and other animalistic mobile research machines.

Click here to see a four-legged robot named WildCat. The video shows the noisy machine galloping down a car park at high speed (16 mph) and pivoting quickly on the spot. I watched spell-bound.

Boston Dynamics, which contracts for the US military, is the eighth robotics company snapped up by Google this year. Both the price and size of the project are being withheld from publication. Analysts say the purchases signal a rising interest in robotics use by consumer internet companies.


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I can't imagine where the use of robotics will lead. One such crazy idea ended up putting a supercomputer in hundreds of millions of pockets. On second thought, my worst fears would be for robots to take over the world. On a practical level, I can't see that happening. Where would all the funds come from to build a metallic army with computer brains? Doesn't the world have enough problems with famine, war, slavery, and rising costs in consumer products?

Yet, I notice that computer games are selling well this Christmas. I can't understand how families can afford these luxuries. What happened to the challenge of a game of chess to test the brain?


Andrew Ben Ugodo
12/15/2013 07:04:39 pm

IS funny how many companies are into this robot stuff. i checked on bbc about the coming iron-man suit and is going fine, preety soon men with armors will fly through our heads lolz. this technology inventions is a nice idea but they really need to review the movie terminator one more time, or irobot they all started good untill the robots went awire and started killing people. my main question is why does google want robots. they should leave it to Amazon and focus on their other products. ROBOT INVASION:- olatblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/robot-invasion.HTML

Francene Stanley link
12/15/2013 10:26:24 pm

I hope they don't want to take over the world.

Karin Copperwood link
12/15/2013 08:56:00 pm

I watched a 60 Minutes episode focusing on Amazon and their desire to have "delivery drones" that will drop off packages within a certain distance from a distribution center. Technology is interesting. It will be fascinating to see where we are in 50 years.

Francene Stanley link
12/15/2013 10:27:25 pm

You might be around, but I won't. hehe. It bears thinking about though.

Sophie Bowns link
12/15/2013 08:57:31 pm

Fascinating! But why would they make a cheetah? What's the point?

Francene Stanley link
12/15/2013 10:28:36 pm

Te name of the invention is Cheetah--the world's fastest running animal. hehe.


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