Google to sell their first humanoid robot

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Internet giant Google is more than the search engine: they’re also behind a series of robots that might just change the world… or some business.

Google’s robot can run, climb and even drive a car, and has completed DARPA Robotics Challenge too. Commercial enterprises are now able to buy the HRP-2 designed by Schaft, a subsidiary from Google, and employ it for several purposes.

Google had been working as of now with driverless cars, that didn’t have steering wheels or pedals, but this is their first foray into humanoid robots, and from the data gathered from their DARPA tests, it’s a total success. So, how long will it be before we can have one of these in our homes?

Source: RT

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Google bots learning to read webpages like humans, one step closer to knowing everything

Google bots now read webpages more like humans, one step closer to knowing everything

Google just launched its Knowledge Graph, a tool intended to deliver more accurate information by analyzing the way users search. Of course, with a desire to provide better search results comes a need for improved site-reading capabilities. JavaScript and AJAX have traditionally put a wrench in Google bots' journey through a webpage, but it looks like the search engine has developed some smarter specimens. While digging through Apache logs, a developer spotted evidence that bots now execute the JavaScript they encounter -- and rather than just mining for URLS, the crawlers seem to be mimicking how users click on objects to activate them. That means bots can dig deeper into the web, accessing databases and other content that wasn't previously indexable. Looks like Google is one step closer to success on its quest to know everything.

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