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Google wins DARPA’s robotics challenge, wonders if it was a good idea to turn down future military contracts

Google wins DARPA’s robotics challenge, wonders if it was a good idea to turn down future military contracts

DARPA’s Robotic Challenge took place in Florida over the weekend, pitting some of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots against each other in a series of complex tasks, and rather fortuitously for a famously acquisitive Silicon Valley company, the winning robot was fielded by a company called Schaft — a Japanese company that was recently acquired by Google as part ...

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