8 Robotics Companies Acquired by Google in Last 6 Months — Humans to Become Obsolete

Follow @IntelligenceHub By Shepard Ambellas | December 14, 2013 While times are interesting, we may want to consider the road we are heading down before it’s too late (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) (INTELLIHUB) — In what will mark the beginning of a new era, the tech giant Google plans to lead the pack with new and innovative ways to further separate humans from reality by disabling our senses, minimizing our purpose on the planet, eventually rendering humans like ourselves obsolete. John Markoff with the New York Times wrote, “Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, 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. It is the eighth robotics company that Google has acquired in the last half-year. Executives at the Internet giant are circumspect about what exactly they plan to do with their robot collection. But Boston Dynamics and its animal kingdom-themed machines bring significant cachet to Google’s robotic efforts, which are being led byAndy Rubin, the Google executive who spearheaded the development of Android, the world’s most widely used smartphone software.” While some see Google’s rapid acquirement of robotics firms like Boston Dynamics as a positive step for the firm that retains the slogan “Don’t be evil”, other like myself see this as the beginning of a long and dangerous road, a road which we likely shouldn’t go down. The road if traveled, will essentially lead us toward human extinction, leaving only those in power to decide the fate of humanity.



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