And for some reason, people find this terrifying.

Google has announced that it's acquiring Boston Dynamics, one

of the world's leading robotics and engineering

design companies.

You've definitely seen Boston Dynamics robots.

Some of their greatest hits include

Atlas, the headless wonder designed

to walk on rocky terrain, and its cousin, Petman,

who does calisthenics, push-ups, squats, and has

been known to model a hazmat suit.

And then there's Cheetah, a quadruped

that can run slightly faster than Usain Bolt.

The galloping Wildcat and old Bambi legs,

otherwise known as Big Dog.

And for obvious reasons, this impressive menagerie of robots

tends to always steal the show.

And sheer terror is a common reaction

to these videos online.

But crazy robots aren't the only thing

that Boston Dynamics has developed.

If you go to the website, you'll see that the company was also

the original developer of the DI-Guy human simulation tools.

This is a software suite for simulation-based training, UAV

training, law enforcement training, mission planning,

and many other applications all based

on autonomous, artificial intelligence.

Some of its products are in SDK with a library

of realistic human characters if everyone on the street

had amazing posture, and a DI-Guy artificial intelligence

which boasts completely autonomous agents that

can react to events, messages, and other cues independently.

Here's how it works in an interrogation setting.

A [INAUDIBLE] identified you as the driver.

Why don't you come clean and tell us

what happened last night before things get worse?

But before you started having nightmares

about being detained and questioned by a Google sim cop,

a rep confirmed to me that, as of last week,

the DI-Guy army has marched off to join another firm called

VT MAK-- a part of VT systems, a Virginia-based, integrated,

engineering group.

Google does have its own AI initiatives, sometimes

referred to as Google Deep Learning or the Google Brain.

Of course, leaving the rest of us

to continue to feverishly speculate

on what this latest robotics buy will mean.

Will Google, as Michael on my Facebook implied,

become a defense contractor or maybe

they just want to build a better Roomba?

I'd buy that.

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