Google acquires military robot-maker Boston Dynamics

Name: Google acquires military robot-maker Boston Dynamics
Uploaded: 2013-12-16T11:56:32.000Z
Duration: 3 min 29 s
Description: Google has acquired Boston Dynamics, a robotics research company that makes realistic animal like machines.

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Secrecy is surrounding Google's latest acquisition of the engineering company Boston Dynamics.

The firm, which builds robots for the US military, is led by former Android boss Andy Rubin.

Both the price and size of the project is unknown.

Aaron Heslehurst spoke to Rory Cellan-Jones.

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16 December 2013