Google has assimilated the engineering company that developed Cheetah, the world’s fastest-running robot and other animalistic mobile exploration machines. Boston Dynamics, which indentures for the US military, is the eighth robotics company shattered up by Google this year.
Both the price and size of the project, which is led by previous Android boss Andy Rubin, are being kept under censorships. However, forecasters say the acquisitions signal a rising interest in robotics use by consumer internet companies.
Online shopping portal Amazon, for example, lately proclaimed plans to organize a fleet of distribution drones. In a declaration posted on the Google Plus service, Chief Executive Larry Page said:
“I am excited about Andy Rubin’s next project. His last big bet, Android, started off as a crazy idea that ended up putting a supercomputer in hundreds of millions of pockets. It is still very early days for this, but I can’t wait to see the progress.”
Robot Machines
Boston Dynamics, which does not sell robots commercially, was founded in 1992 by a previous professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It accessed for Japanese electronics giant Sony on consumer applications such as Aibo, a robot dog.
But it frequently progresses mobile and off-road robotics technology, subsidized by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa.
Google has said it would honour the present military contracts with Darpa.
Boston Dynamics’ videos of its walking robots have gathered millions of views online.
One of them, called BigDog, is unusually nimble for a machine and is capable to move over rough topography such as snow and ice.
Another, of a four-legged robot named WildCat, shows the deafening machine dashing down a car park at high rapidity and pivoting rapidly on the spot.
