{"259251":{"#nid":"259251","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Google\u0027s Building an Army of Robots","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EGoogle must have thought that it didn\u0027t have enough on its sci-fi to-do list. In addition to Google Glass and the Google self-driving car, the Internet giant still has enough time and money to create its own robot division. The unnamed robot initiative will be led by former Android CEO Andy Rubin. But this robot division wont\u0027t be completely built from scratch. Over the past six months, Google has acquired several companies that specialize in various robotics fields. Industrial Perception focuses on robotic arms that specialize in handling packages, while other companies such as Schaft and Meka are working on making more human-like robots. Gary McMurray, the associate director of industry at Georgia Tech\u0027s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, said that based on the companies Google bought, it\u0027s not too hard to sketch out a rough picture of Google\u0027s plans. \u0022They aren\u0027t going for the consumer market,\u0022 he told ABC News. \u0022They can use their robots for marketing, or they can go for something in manufacturing.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2013-12-06 06:48:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:51","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"automation in the workplace","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/googles-building-army-robots\/story?id=21100196","dateline":{"date":"2013-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3165","name":"google"},{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}