Google Added A Puppy To Its Creepy Robot Family | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

Google Added A Puppy To Its Creepy Robot Family | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

Google Added A Puppy To Its Creepy Robot Family Boston Dynamics has given its humanoid robot a terrifying—but cute—new best friend. At the same time, it's also kind of cute. While many of Boston Dynamics projects were born out of contracts with DARPA to design robots that can assist soldiers in the field—for things like carrying heavy loads or drone-like reconnaissance—Google and DARPA have indicated they intend to untangle themselves out of mutual interest. Google announced last year it would reject DARPA funding for its growing number of robots going forward, and would take one of its companies' robots out of a DARPA competition . Still, the ATLAS design and other of its projects continue to influence many academic and government robotics efforts. Like ATLAS, Spot is self-balancing, which enables it to resist outside forces that might otherwise knock it out of commission. In this case, it weathers what appears to be a pretty aggressive kick from a grown man. In the wild,

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