Google Buys Boston Dynamics, Creator Of Big Dog
Posted yesterday by John Biggs (@johnbiggs)
Google announced that they’ve acquired Boston Dynamics, creators of quad- and bi-pedal robots like Big Dog and PETMAN. This is Google’s eighth robotics acquisition.
The company did not disclose the details of the sale.
The announcement appeared in the New York Times where Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert said they would honor their DARPA military contracts although Google will not officially be a military contractor.
The company, founded in 1992, has been working on standalone, gas-powered robots for the past decade. The robots are self-righting and very resilient. Robots like Big Dog can throw cinder blocks, handle rocky terrain, and run at 16 mph.
The man behind the acquisition, Andy Rubin, stepped down as head of Googe’s Android business in march after turning a little-known mobile OS into a juggernaut. “His last big bet, Android, started off as a crazy idea that ended up putting a supercomputer in hundreds of millions of pockets,” wrote Larry Page on his Google+ page. “It is still very early days for this, but I can’t wait to see the progress.”
This is how it will play out.
Machines become more advanced, they are used to take over menial jobs first.
I could only imagine the heartfelt concerns of people worrying about those less fortunate than them on the matter.
“Good maybe the robot will get my order right.”
out come rich get rich = poor get poorer
Machines are advanced yet again. Now they are able to do more complicated task for longer hours than a human… Thus getting rid of even more workers. To test the waters they’ll start off by cutting out Chinese labor. Depending on the success, it will be implemented on home soil.
Out come rich get rich poor get poorer
The process will repeat it’s self till the top, because we cant have millionaire senators who are out of touch with the American people jobless, no the country needs their guidance.
I’m sure these machines will be used to terraform mars in the future after the poor and impoverished have been weeded OR until most of the country is as fucked as Detroit and or the poor parts of LA!
(A little tip from me, if you are in a poor area of LA carry cigarettes on you! Sometimes the homeless and crackheads come out of abandoned building like the walking dead. Take your cigarettes and sprinkle them away from you. The zombie people will pick them up and leave. I’m not making a joke here.)
But how long before the machine becomes sentient?
Oh wait I’ll be dead by then no worries back to picking my ass.
