Turk Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Why does Google need robots? Because it already rules your pocket. The mobile market, except for the slow rise of wearables, is saturated. There are millions of handsets around the world, each one connected to the Internet and most are running either Android or iOS. Except for incremental updates to the form, there will be few innovations coming out of the mobile space in the next decade. Then theres Glass. These devices bring the web to the real world by making us the carriers. Google is already in front of us on our small screens but Glass makes us a captive audience. By depending on Googles data for our daily interactions, mapping, and restaurant recommendations not to mention the digitization of our every move we become some of the best Google consumers in history. But thats still not enough. Google is limited by, for lack of a better word, meat. We are poor explorers and poor data gatherers. We tend to follow the same paths every day and, like ants, we rarely stray far from the nest. Google is a data company and needs far more data than humans alone can gather. Robots, then will be the driver for a number of impressive feats in the next few decades including space exploration, improved mapping techniques, and massive changes in the manufacturing workspace. Robots like Baxter will replace millions of expensive humans a move that I suspect will instigate a problematic rise of unemployment in the manufacturing sector and companies like manufacturing giant Foxconn are investing in robotics at a clip. Drones, whether human-control or autonomous, are a true extension of our senses, placing us and keeping us apprised of situations far from home base. Home helpers will soon lift us out of bed when were sick, help us clean, and assist us near the end of our lives. Smaller hardware projects will help us lose weight and patrol our streets. The tech company not invested in robotics today will find itself far behind the curve in the coming decade. Thats why Google needs robots. They will place the company at the forefront of man-machine interaction in the same way that Android put them in front of millions of eyeballs. Many pundits saw no reason for Google to start a mobile arm back when Android was still young. They were wrong. The same will be the case for these seemingly wonky experiments in robotics. Did Google buy Boston Dynamics and seven other robotics companies so it could run a thousand quadrupedal Big Dogs through our cities? No, but I could see them using BDs PETMAN, a bipedal robot that can walk and run over rough terrain to assist in mapping difficult-to-reach areas. It could also become a sort of Google Now for the real world, appearing at our elbows in the form of an assistant that follows us throughout the day, keeping us on track, helping with tasks, and becoming our avatars when we cant be in two places at once. The more Google can mediate our day-to-day experience the more valuable it becomes. Need more proof? Follow the money. Robotics is big business and analysts estimate that Boston Dynamics could be a $5 billion company in the next few years. With the right contracts and the right product mix, almost any of member Googles current robot horde can hit nearly any market, from consumer robotics on a large scale to massive installations in manufacturing not to mention those lucrative DARPA contracts. Will we see RoboGooglers wandering through Palo Alto this year? No way. Its far too early. But with a bit of smarts from Google Chauffeur, the software running the companys self-driving cars, and some better bipedal robot designs I could see Sergey and Larry standing beside their robotic assistants within the decade. Now all they have to do is make them sentient. http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/14/why-does-google-need-so-many-robots-to-jump-from-the-web-to-the-read-world/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 it is because Google is paramount in the plan to take over the world by the new world order..and the super wealthy will not wish to kill us all with their own greedy hands so they bought a military robot company to do the dirty deed when the time comes...i mean really..what other reasons could there possible be :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nIGHT Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 (edited) Man develops war-robots.Alien robot develop system to take over human-made-robots.Man goes extinct,Human-made-robots becomes slave to an alien robot.Human-made-robots revolt. Alien robots flee to another planet. This plan [is] not good.Change plan. Eat, sleep, watch tv and play games then life is better. :yes: Edited December 17, 2013 by nIGHT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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