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Robotics: Google Will it fulfill the dreams of Isaac Asimov?

Google has just announced that its new acquisition in the field of companies specializing in robotics was Boston Dynamics, to whom we owe the humanoid robot Atlas. Where does the sudden craze Google robots? His project to exploit the asteroids? The proximity of the Google executives with transhumanism gurus might suggest that you can fulfill the dreams of Isaac Asimov considering.

Google recently buying companies specializing in robotics. One of these acquisitions is particularly it as it is none other than Boston Dynamics. Founded in 1992 by Marc Raibert, a former MIT professor of the famous, the company is known for its animal or humanoid robots look like alphadog, cheetah, bobcat and the Atlas. These robots can walk and even run, have developed with the help of the famous Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA American army. At the head of the robotics division of Google, there are now Andy Rubin, one of the creators of Android, the operating system known as smart phones, tablet PCs, PDAs and mobile devices.

But why Google has decided to get into robotics? Difficult to answer this question, although company executives suggest that it would be able to push a step further automation of some plants, particularly in the field of electronics, replacing men with robots. There is no specific short-term commercial application in projects seems to be giant Mountain View California. We can only lose by speculation.


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