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"Don't be Evil"-Google buys DARPA-subsidized Corporatist, 'Soon-to-be Evil' Killer Robot Factory: Boston Dynamics

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By Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton on December 14, 2013

Image by Aaron Dykes & Melissa Melton, TruthStreamMedia.com
Google has announced that it has purchased Boston Dynamics, the engineering firm which has produced all those creepy dystopian future robots for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), such as the Big Dog (a dog robot that can throw cinder blocks with an arm coming out of its head), Cheetah (the world’s fastest sprinting robot that can outpace humans) and Atlas (the one that’s eerily reminiscent of something out of a Terminator film…Skynet, anyone?).
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.
So Google is building a new class of autonomous systems that might do anything… To that end, Boston Dynamics is now the eighth robotics firm Google has bought over the past six months.
The search engine giant has been tight-lipped so far about what exactly it plans to do with all of these robots, but it is clear that Boston Dynamics is spearheading a revolution — a robotic revolution.
Meet ATLAS!

http://youtu.be/zkBnFPBV3f0
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Published on Jul 11, 2013
Say hello to ATLAS, one of the most advanced humanoid robots ever built!
ATLAS was developed for DARPA by Boston Dynamics. Software-focused teams from Tracks B and C of the DARPA Robotics Challenge will use the robot to compete in the first physical competition of the Challenge in December 2013 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway.
The DARPA Robotics Challenge seeks to advance the technology necessary to create robots capable of assisting humans in disaster response.
For more information on ATLAS and the Challenge, please visitwww.theroboticschallenge.org.
Not the first robotics firm, either. Google's on a buying binge; Boston Dynamics was their EIGHTth buy, in the last six months, alone!
Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots

Boston Dynamics’ four-legged robot named WildCat can gallop at high speeds. PHOTO: Boston Dynamics
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: December 14, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google’s growing robot menagerie.
A robot named BigDog, which can walk over rough terrain, can also stay upright in response to a well-placed human kick.
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.
It is the eighth robotics company that Google has acquired in the last half-year. Executives at the Internet giant are circumspect about what exactly they plan to do with their robot collection. But Boston Dynamics and its animal kingdom-themed machines bring significant cachet to Google’s robotic efforts, which are being led by Andy Rubin, the Google executive who spearheaded the development of Android, the world’s most widely used smartphone software.
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