Boston Dynamics is behind the development of the packing robot BigDog and the humanoid Atlas in cooperation with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).
Now military partner acquired by Google, which confirms perched purchase but keep secret the cause, according to Computerworld’s news service.
purchase gets analysts to wonder. Planning a company whose motto is “Do not be evil” to create an army of robots to finally win the patent war against Samsung, or are they looking for advanced technology for use in its self-running Smart car?
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answer is probably the car, although it is not inconceivable that the company tinker with drones or other popular and related technology.
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Azra Gottheil, an analyst at Technologu Business Research admit I get him to scratch their heads. Gottheil says that while he usually manages to find a correlation between Google’s main business and acquisitions and various projects as Boston dymanic-deal hard to figure out.
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– The only thing I can understand is that they like to buy very smart people and very smart technology. There is obvious potential integration with the driverless car, but I still have no anselse, said Gottheil for Computerworld.
BigDog: The most famous robot from Boston Dynamics , intended for military use in rough terrain. Photo: Lance Cpl. M. L. Meier, U.S. Marine Corps, in the Public Domain.
The self-driving robot car seems like an obvious cause, and Boston Dynamics is the eighth robot company Google has acquired over the past six months.
Analyst Zeus Kerravala in Zk Research also says that at first glance may seem a little strange acquisition for Google, which after all is most known search engine and Android mobiles. But the company likes to investigate and experiment with different things, and it is precisely this fact that Google is Google, believes Kerravala.
– The Boston Dynamics so they get more robots of different types and sizes. And Google is the only company that is a little “out there” and that has a big wallet, points Kerravala.
Google, as mentioned, commented on the acquisition beyond to confirm the appointment.
See video: Boston Dynamics Big Dog (the first video of BigDog BD)
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