(Disclosure: I'm long GOOG, and now apparently The Terminator)
@duffmt6 and I were going back and forth over PM about this yesterday. Evidently Google has gotten into the robotics business big time over the past six months, and no one even realized it until they acquired gnarly military robotics contractor Boston Dynamics last week. Make no mistake: this is some Skynet shit for realz. Just take a look at some of the hardware showcased in the following video. So I ask you: what the hell is Google up to with this stuff? Are they planning to leapfrog Amazon's drones and offer Cheetah delivery? Or is it something a little darker? This is potentially scary stuff. What business application does Google see in robotics that I'm somehow missing?
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