Today Google has matured and passed up the competition dramatically. As the company grows it acquires companies and technologies that continue to make it a force to be reckoned with. Ranging from the Android OS to the acquisition of Motorola, most of Google's acquisitions for the most part make sense -- until lately:
[Google added more pieces to its growing toolbox of robotics late last week with the purchase of Boston Dynamics, a military contractor that has raised intrigue by releasing videos of its inventions in recent years. Those inventions include a four-legged robot capable of galloping past Olympian sprinters and a jumping contraption that can leap onto tall buildings. Another video of a creepy-looking four-footed machine has been watched more than 15 million times since it was posted on Google's YouTube site five years ago.
Besides designing animal-like robots, Boston Dynamics also has been working on humanoids as part of a $10.8 million contract with the US government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.
Boston Dynamics' links to the US military has inspired comparisons of its work with the ruthless cyborgs that overthrew humans in the "Terminator" movies. Founded in 1992 by former Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Marc Raibert, Boston Dynamics says it is dedicating to "changing your idea of what robots can do."]source: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
Some think Google will become the real life Skynet, but I think the clip below gives a better possibility for which way Google would most likely be headed:
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