Is there a 'dark side' to Amazon drones, Google robots?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/12/05/drones-amazon-google-robots/3880409/
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos showcased a drone delivery system
called Prime Air on 60 Minutes this past weekend. The idea is that package
below five pounds can be delivered straight from Amazon distribution centers to
customers within 30 minutes using drones.
We learned this week that Google acquired seven robotics
companies , which according to a New York Times report , “are capable of
creating technologies needed to build a mobile , dexterous robot. “
Google has been experimenting with driver less cars, and is
actually running a same-day delivery service in California, so it is definitely
interested in human less logistics for lack of better term
Google’s Andy Rubin,
the engineer behind the Android operating system who is now heading up the
company’s robotics effort said “I have a history of making my hobbies into a
career”
Google co-founder Larry Page , who has argued that
technology should be deployed to free humans from drudgery and repetitive
tasks.
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