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Re:Google Acquires Boston Dynamics by kken on Saturday December 14, 2013 @03:01AM (#6905091)
http://schaft-inc.jp/

http://www.industrial-perception.com/

http://mekabot.com/

http://redwoodrobotics.com/

http://www.botndolly.com/

http://www.autofuss.com/

http://www.holomni.com/

The common themes I see are:

- Movie industry

- Anthropomorphic robots

This is not aimed at utility applications, but seems to head into the human-machine-interface (HMI) direction.

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Re:Google Acquires Boston Dynamics by dave809 on Saturday December 14, 2013 @11:14AM (#6906014)
I remember watching this awesome video from Bot & Dolly a few weeks ago, "Box" http://vimeo.com/75260457
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Re:Google Acquires Boston Dynamics by kineticfocus on Saturday December 14, 2013 @04:37AM (#6905226)
With all these companies listed I'm surprised Willow Garage didn't join up with Google; given that the founder was a googler.
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Re:Google Acquires Boston Dynamics by krschultz on Saturday December 14, 2013 @04:45PM (#6907240)
In effect, they did. Willow Garage was restructured into Redwood Robotics. Google purchased Redwood Robotics. There are certainly lots of messy details, but the key projects (ROS & OpenCV) and the engineers from Willow Garage are now at Google.
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