Google Refuses Funding From Military to Help Develop Robots

As Google continues to expands its robotics arm, the tech giant today made a big announcement in regards to its funding. Despite the two revolutionary robotics companies it acquired last year, Boston Dynamics and Schaft, currently competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge—a military-sponsored competition where robots are tasked to carry out a number of intricate assignments—Google said Boston Dynamics and Schaft will no longer accept DARPA money.

As Adrianne Jeffries reports, the decision seems to be mutual.

What's good with some affordable consumer robots, Google? Now that's something we can definitely get down with.

[via The Verge]