Velocity Alert: Google Acquires Robotics-Design Company Boston Dynamics

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Google Acquires Robotics-Design Company Boston Dynamics Google acquired Boston Dynamics, an engineering and robotics-design company, in a deal that significantly enhances the search giant's robotics expertise. The Friday acquisition brings a new dynamic to Google's robotics efforts, led by Andy Rubin, which includes the company's much-discussed self-driving cars, according to The New York Times. How does Mashable know what's going viral? Mashable built a system called Velocity, which scours the social web, collecting lots and lots of data around how people are engaging with published articles. It then pulls all of that data back to Mashable, dumps it into our own predictive engine, and predicts which articles are about to go viral. Read more at Mashable.com ▶ Mashable, Inc. is a California Corporation. P.O. Box 64 New York, NY, 10159-0064

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