Google buys the company that produces mobile robots for the military..

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It is said that Google has purchased Boston Dynamics, the engineering company that has designed Pentagon research mobile robots, the American newspaper New York Times reports.

The company creates "robots walking with a weird sense of balance and even have similar movements to monkeys that run faster than ordinary people," the Times says.
Google did not give any details of the amount of money paid for the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, and said it did not plan to provide any financial information on any of its eight purchases of robotic companies, which it acquired at 6 The last few months.

A video of one of the Boston Dynamics robots called BigDog features a noisy, gas powered robot, and the same one has four legs and can climb through the hills, walk through the snow, climb to the ice and even reach the stand Even right.
BigDog Development started in 2003 in partnership with British Robot Producers, Foster-Miller, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Harvard.

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Yes, in a nutshell, they're on some Pinky and the Brain type shit. Look out Skynet. Google writes self-writing algorithms for AI. How do you stop a self-writing algorithm? Especially, if it can run aster than a monkey. Just saying.

In a quest to own it all.

Just the opposite: they are selling it to SoftBank.