Google, recently acquired worldwide several important assets associated with robotics. One of the acquisitions was the U.S. company Boston Dynamics, which develops the most mobile and sufficiently autonomous robots for various purposes. The company's products can climb trees, run with decent speed and confidently move on rough terrain with the load and walk on two legs. However, each type of activity is individually specifiable for a robot. As explained by the publication PC World, recently quadruped squire LS-3 has been successfully tested during the exercise of U.S. military forces.
Colleagues from the site Computerworld thus argue that, after passing under the control of Google Boston Dynamics dependence on the defense industry has been steadily declining. The company must maintain existing contracts, but familiarity with financial documents revealed that this year it received from DARPA only $ 1.1 million versus $ 31.2 million a year earlier. Moreover, this year received money was intended to participate in the defense ministry-funded U.S. competition robots. Japanese asset Google named Schaft, also involved in the creation of robots, opened this spring refused funding from the defense ministries. Authors publishing believe that Google is trying to move away from development dual use, which can be directed against a person.
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