Google had acquired the famous Robotic company Boston Dynamics which was behind the creation of terrifying robots DARPA-related projects like WildCat / Cheetah, Atlas, Petman and Big Dog.
Boston Dynamics which is based in Waltham, Mass., has gained an international reputation for machines that walk with an uncanny sense of balance and even — cheetahlike — run faster than the fastest humans.
Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992 by Marc Raibert, a former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It has not sold robots commercially, but has pushed the limits of mobile and off-road robotics technology, mostly for Pentagon clients. Previously it did consulting work for Sony on consumer robots like the Aibo robotic dog.
Andy Rubin, the man behind the success of Google’s Android Software will be heading the robotic project in Google. Andy Rubin tweeted as “The future is looking awesome!” about this acquisition.
It is the eighth robotics company that Google has acquired in the last 6 months.
