Meet Google's Growing Robot Army
J Thoendell stashed this in Tech
Source: http://gizmodo.com/a-humans-guide-to-goo...
Google can't stop buying robotics companies. In the past two months, eight of the 12 companies the search giant has acquired have "robotics" in their name or descriptions. Here's your complete breakdown of the robot army presently at Google's command.
Stashed in: Google!, Google Acquisitions, Robots!, Awesome, +Robots+, Turing, Bots, Google, Drones!, Internet of Things, Robot Jobs
Boston Dynamics + Nest + Deep Mind = a learning robot dog thermostat
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/27/google-is-making-a-land-grab-for-the-internet-of-things/
Is there any company besides Google who is thinking about robots an artificial intelligence at scale?
Amazon. And microsoft are also growing a secret army of robotics researchers - direction unclear but was predicted to be home/elder care focused
Andra, do you know if the Amazon delivery drones are part of that effort?
11:41 AM Jan 27 2014