{"id":99541,"date":"2013-12-17T18:17:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T18:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/google-search-and-destroy-the-internet-giant-buys-a-pioneer-of-scary-robot-animals\/"},"modified":"2013-12-17T18:17:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T18:17:54","slug":"google-search-and-destroy-the-internet-giant-buys-a-pioneer-of-scary-robot-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/google-search-and-destroy-the-internet-giant-buys-a-pioneer-of-scary-robot-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Google search and destroy: The internet giant buys a pioneer of scary robot animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cahal Milmo<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/google-search-and-destroy-the-internet-giant-motto-dont-be-evil-has-bought-a-pioneer-of-scary-robot-animals-can-its-ethics-survive-9007562.html\">Independent.co.uk<\/a><br \/>December 17, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Big Dog is capable of many things of interest to its new owners at Google. What remains to be seen is whether the quadruped robot&#8217;s ability to pick up a breeze block and hurl it across a warehouse with impressive dexterity and speed is among them.<\/p>\n<p>The computer search giant has completed the purchase of Boston Dynamics, the maker of a cutting-edge menagerie of walking and crawling robots including Big Dog, which counts America&#8217;s Department of Defense (DoD) among its major sources of income.<\/p>\n<p>The robotics firm is the eighth company in the same field to be snapped up by Google in the last six months under a project headed by Andy Rubin, the executive responsible for turning Android into the world&#8217;s most widely used smartphone software and whose first love is robots. Mr Rubin, an engineer by training, last week used Twitter to declare that &ldquo;The future is looking awesome!&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 11:59 am<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/google-search-and-destroy-the-internet-giant-buys-a-pioneer-of-scary-robot-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Google search and destroy: The internet giant buys a pioneer of scary robot animals\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cahal MilmoIndependent.co.ukDecember 17, 2013 Big Dog is capable of many things of interest to its new owners at Google. What remains to be seen is whether the quadruped robot&#8217;s ability to pick up a breeze block and hurl it across a warehouse with impressive dexterity and speed is among them. The computer search giant has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-99541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}