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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts
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To: robert b furman who wrote (283)12/14/2013 11:16:25 AM
From: Kirk ©   of 26996
 
It looks like Google is the GE of the 21st Century.

Just think what the story below means for the disabled... chairs that can climb a few steps.... and by the time I'm old, chairs that can get the elderly up and down multiple flights of stairs in these sardine can, 3-story "houses" they are building everywhere they can in the Bay Area to get more property taxes out of a patch of land at the expense of destroying the quality of life with gridlock traffic..

Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots

By JOHN MARKOFF - New York Times
December 14, 2013



Boston Dynamics’ four-legged robot named WildCat can gallop at high speeds.


A robot named BigDog, which can walk over rough terrain, can also stay upright in response to a well-placed human kick.BOSTON DYNAMICS
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