If Google was serious about robots, they would have bought irobot.com/roomba
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Instead, they bought Boston Dynamics.
They could still buy Roomba too and really clean up!
Google doesn't care about robots. They want the situational navigation technology.
Interesting, a huge barge, robot company, corporate jet facility, what in gods name are they up to over there!!!
They're also working on sequencing the genome, self driving cars, and scanning every book they can!
And they're experimenting with alternative energy and very high speed bandwidth.
Interesting insight from Jason that they want situational nav tech.
3:15 PM Dec 17 2013