{"id":6719,"date":"2013-12-14T20:47:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T01:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=6719"},"modified":"2013-12-14T20:47:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T01:47:42","slug":"what-the-heck-will-google-do-with-these-scary-military-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/what-the-heck-will-google-do-with-these-scary-military-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Heck Will Google Do With These Scary Military Robots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This comes to us via Forbes&#8230;a publication, we as poor folks. don&#8217;t normally read. But we found this article interesting and somewhat unsettling. What do you think?<\/p>\n<h2>What The Heck Will Google Do With These Scary Military Robots?<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introducing WildCat\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wE3fmFTtP9g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see, we have a company that already knows everything about us, has possibly the world\u2019s largest computer network, has recently built one of the biggest artificial-intelligence teams in the world\u2013a company so powerful that it feels the need to soften its dominance with the informal motto, \u201cDon\u2019t be evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And now Google Google\u2013yes, of course we\u2019re talking about Google\u2013has bought a military robot company call Boston Dynamics. Not just any robot maker this time\u2013after all, it has already quietly bought seven others over the past year, apparently to provide former Android chief Andy Rubin another chance at a moonshot project. No, unlike the other robot makers, this company makes machines by the names of BigDog, Atlas, and Cheetah that can variously outrun Usain Bolt and hurl cinderblocks 17 feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readability.com\/articles\/acvxaesz\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest here&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comes to us via Forbes&#8230;a publication, we as poor folks. don&#8217;t normally read. But we found this article interesting and somewhat unsettling. What do you think? What The Heck Will Google Do With These Scary Military Robots? Let\u2019s see, we have a company that already knows everything about us, has possibly the world\u2019s largest computer network, has\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/what-the-heck-will-google-do-with-these-scary-military-robots\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6720,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions\/6720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}