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Google Buys Military Robot Maker Boston Dynamics
2013-12-16 22:14:16| TechNewsWorld
Google has added to its portfolio of robotics acquisitions by snapping up Boston Dynamics. The company has conceived research robots for the military and is renowned for its agile robots that have a firm sense of balance. One can run faster than any human. While Boston Dynamics has not sold commercial robots, it has carried out extensive research and experimentation in the robotics field.
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Google acquires Boston Dynamics and seven other robotics companies: Next stop, Judgment Day
2013-12-16 16:49:29| Extremetech
Google, the search engine and advertising company, has acquired Boston Dynamics -- the robotics and engineering company famous for the creation of some of the world's most advanced robots. It is clear that Google is seriously -- and rather suddenly -- interested in robots. What isn't clear, though, is why. Is Google planning some kind of synergistic and masterful play to integrate its AI and machine learning software algorithms with humanoid helper robots? Is this the start of a story that ultimately leads to the technological singularity and Judgment Day?
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Google dives headfirst into robotics with Boston Dynamics buy
2013-12-16 15:38:24| InfoWorld: Top News
When it wants something, Google doesnt just stick its toe in the water. No, it simply dives in head first. Less than two weeks after reports circulated that Google has been buying up robotics companies for the past six months as part of an effort to develop its own robotics technology, the company said it's buying Boston Dynamics, one of the most well-known robotics companies in the world.
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Canada's competition agency takes Google to court in antitrust investigation
2013-12-16 15:31:02| InfoWorld: Top News
The Canadian Commissioner of Competition believes Google has abused its dominant search position and in an ongoing investigation has filed a document with the Federal Court of Canada demanding more information on the company's practices.
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VIDEO: Google buys 'animal' robot maker
2013-12-16 12:56:32| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Google has acquired Boston Dynamics, a robotics research company that makes realistic animal like machines.
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