Why did Google sell the most advanced robotics company in the world?

Why did Google sell the most advanced robotics company in the world?

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Google is full of retards who can't understand real engineer

who'd they sell it to?

Because it's probably all R/D money burning with no products except for that stupid robot puppy thing.

Japs

man those nips always perky when it's something cool

Probably because they didn't turn over a profit within abset timespan.
BD is really fucking cool, but their products are far from commercially viable.

They don't want to be remembered as the ones who caused Skynet. Except the point is moot because there would be no one left to remember anything.

Google has nothing to spend it's enormous profit on so it buys and sells useless ventures like this one.

how do those guys get money?
surely they aren't selling tech demos

>these robots will hold weapons in the upcoming WW3

Because it wasn't advanced enough to turn a profit.

secret DARPA stuff

so taxpayers fund this crap?

Military. Google didn't wanna be known as the guys with the company who made killer robots, so they sold them to a japanese telecom company so the bots can carry old nips around.

They weren't culturally compatible. BD tackles tough hardware and moonshot projects. Google thinks it can get them to do rapid prototyping like their hardware development team is a fukken python script. Neither side was really happy with each other after a while.

An industrial R&D house would be useful to Google, but they don't know how to manage it. They still think they can solve hardware problems by slapping a general purpose CPU on it and piling on enough algorithms until they get self driving cars and whatnot.

So the nips can have the killer robots to go against our army? That makes perfect sense.

yeah, DARPA financed Siri via SRI too.

>crap
Do you have a problem with robotic mules and kanagsroos?

Because they gutted all the techs and talents they wanted.

they did the same with motorolla so seems likely

but you need killer robots if you want to protect your resources from foreign countries. resources of earth are limited and if you don't protect them others are going to take them from you.

I have a problem that we are funding research when we could be using that money for more welfare for the millions of americans that live in poverty

You want google to go full ANCAP and add killer robots to their collection of all your personal data, self driving cars, and detailed satellite imagery of the entire world?

Who do you think runs the nip military?
(Hint: It's US)

>gutted everything
>BD shows off more advanced robots like 6 months after being sold
Something doesn't add up here.

Because it produced no marketable products.

Wrong

what if google is being taken over by skynet already so they sold off their robot branch so it would't get it's digital hands on it?

because it's useless, they just replace wheels with legs

defense industry probably wanted it off the books of google

just wait until these things can run on any terrain while shooting with pinpoint accuracy, if they can't already. far from useless

Nigger they are about as advanced as your kitchen blender. They do good job walking around but that's the entire extent of things they do good job at, and even then sometimes they just fail randomly, but they don't show it in their videos much.

they saw too much

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>force feeding favela fags fishes forever

>Funding worthless spics and mentally ill

Bigger waste of money than BD

because it wouldn't generate add revenue.

Bretty sure they made a gladiator that can do backflips.

why would you have these big bulky things shooting when you could have a swarm of quadcopters shooting instead
or a swarm of tiny quadcopters with skullcrackers

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only 25K

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Cute, I'd almost buy one to use as a personal object carrier. Just have it follow me around with my laptop, phone, and tools and stuff. Jump in my car when I drive somewhere.

It will be sold to china. SoftBank has history of buying stuff for the Chinese.

It was fucking useless, and softbank currently in money burning rampage.

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>so the bots can carry old nips around.

Because they aren't the most advanced robotics company in the world and much of the technology they developed is essentially a dead end.

lol

science has gone too far

>25k
I thought those kind of servos were way more expensive. Well, it doesn't have a laser either to recognize its surroundings. If it is not autonomous, it's a glorified toy.

user, they know every weaknes

They don't want to be associated with literal killing machines BD will put on market next decade.

Because it's worthless. This stuff is like Concorde, technically impressive but completely worthless and uneconomical in real life applications.

Also
>Why did Google sell the most advanced robotics company in the world?

Not even close, Kawasaki's the most advanced robotics company.

>tfw that guy keeps kicking the robot
Made me so angry for no reason.

because they have no experience with robots.

Patents, the same reason why the bought and sold Motorola.

Google will buy companies just for their patents then sell them back while licensing the patents to the new owners of the company and retaining ownership of the key patents. They do this because they're not in the business of building robots or phones.

kek

At first I thought fuck you for posting but in the end I was cheering for the ladder. gg

bd was hindered by old school mentality that wouldn't allow taking advantage of google's deep learning capability in order to improve its useless gizmos

If I recall, they sold it to Toyota so that they could have robot battles with Honda's Mossimo robot.

It always pisses me off when they kick the robots. Reminds me of dogs, and I like dogs.

>having empathy for robots that don't even have a face yet much less can feel pain

this is why humanity is doomed

>robots are useless when labour is already cheap (Asian and Africa in the futur).
What google need is intelligence, that's why they want to improve their IA.

Sympathy. Unless those people are robots.

Because no one wants AI and robots developed under the same roof.

Uh, because they're honestly that advanced.

You can't sell the personal info of robots...

ITS LITERALLY THIS

GOOGLE WAS GETTING BAD PR FOR UNIRONICALLY BECOMING SKYNET

THEYRE STILL WORKING HARD ON THE AI PART, THE ROBOTS WILL COME BACK WHEN THEYRE NEEDED DONT WORRY

you kek'd me

>buy
>absorb all tech
>Dell the company

Bad PR even after stating they wouldn't take new military contacts and no short term reason for owning the company.

KYS you autistic weaklings

I mean, they did unveil what was basically a weapon-less Securitron after they were sold.

That's spooky, where's it going?

All I know is that Google was supposed to sell that dog bot to the US army but it didn't go through because dog bot was too noisy.

Google then probably thought it didn't fit in with hardware too much and so decided to sell it to the japs.

TO KILL ALL HUMANS

THE LADDERS WILL INHERIT THE EARTH

Not taking military contracts is like saying "No I don't want free money"

glad its in good hands now. sex robots soon

Imagine if they were taking military contacts when they started releasing Google Home. They did it because the short term PR cost outweighed the possible longer-term benefit of owning a robotics firm.

Was meant for

They're advanced enough to impress buyer's enough to buy a lot, but also not advanced enough to actually make something worthwhile.

Or they don't want all the bullshit that's associated with it. I've done contracting work for the military before (well, I should say the company I work for has, it wasn't my contracts personally), and although yes, you are pretty much given a carte blanche, that comes with the price of having to go through so much litigation bullshit for every little thing, having people peer down your neck the entire time, question absolutely everything you do, think that they're better at you're job than you even though they have no fucking clue how to do it, having to go through 10 fucking people on a long chain of command just before you get to the person who's authorized to let you take a shit, etc, etc. Its so much bullshit its almost not even worth it I think.

I think my company ended up losing money in the long run on a couple contracts because of the military's ineptitude when it comes to doing things sensibly. If it was any other customer they would be quick, in/out in a month kind of jobs, but with the military something that should take a month ends up taking over a year. Also, even when you're technically just hired by them, they act like they own you and try to make you follow all their bullshit rules too. I got yelled at for trying to make toast during my coffee break in one of the mess halls (that was completely fucking empty by the way) because "breakfast hours are from 530-830", like you cant have fucking toast at a time that isn't breakfast.

Sorry for the blog post, but holy fuck does the military ever rustle my jimmies

Empathy is what will destroy The West. People like you are the ones who opened the borders and allow everyone in because of your feelings.

It is like college, babysitting for adults

>Helping the poor
If anything we should use that money to start a eugenics program.

Let natural selection take its course. Welfare shouldn't even be a thing. We are just allowing the stupid to breed more stupid. At the very least take their right to vote away. Because people who live on welfare and other government assistance programs they are just going to vote to give themselves a raise. Also social security is a welfare program. If I want to save for the future that should be my choice.

This was in fact the original justification for voting being restricted to land owners; they own land in the country and thus have a tangible stake in it's well-being.

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>stops but keeps stomping
that'd be annoying as hell
though it would be cool if it had a dance mode or something

Too much cost, too little return.

tax purposes

that's a good idea

Which are fucking worthless. The post you responded to is pretty explicit in why.

>Toxic masculinity

Caring about something is not weak you stupid piece of shit.