he said yesterday sergey brin the little company purchased boston dynamics an engineering firm with strong ties the military's defense advanced research projects agency or darpa so what is boston dynamics all about this terrifying and shah dropping robot such as big dog four legged robot that can climb hills or cheetah a robot that can run at twenty nine miles an hour and most life like that man humanoid robot that can move around like a human and detect chemical leaks so what the hell is one of the biggest internet companies in the world do. we're just seeing these spooky cyborgs all telling me in google's keeping tight lipped about its intentions but keep in mind the corporation has a newly created secretive robot division and it's the bible on other contracts that boston and previously had with the u.s. military great so i guess the real question here is why should we trust a corporation that holds so much of our personal information to develop absurd war machines for ethical purposes after all we really want private companies and in up with robots that can do this. i don't know

he said yesterday sergey brin the little company purchased boston dynamics an engineering firm with strong ties to the military as defense advanced research projects agency or darpa so what is boston dynamics all about this terrifying and shah dropping robot such as big dog four legged robot that can climb hills or cheetah a robot that can run at twenty nine miles an hour and most lifelike man humanoid robot that can move around like a human and detect chemical leaks so what the hell is one of the biggest internet companies in the world doing purchasing these spooky cyborgs all telling me in google's keeping tight lipped about its intentions but keep in mind the corporation has a newly created secretive robot division and it's that it will honor the contracts that boston and previously had with the u.s. military great so i guess the real question here is why should we trust a corporation that holds so much of our personal information to develop absurd war machines for ethical purposes after all we really want private companies and you know up with robots that can do this. i don't kn

he said yesterday brings little company purchased boston dynamics an engineering firm with strong ties the military's defense advanced research projects agency or darpa so what is boston dynamics all about this terrifying and shah dropping robot such as big dog four legged robot that can climb hills or cheetah a robot that can run at twenty nine miles an hour and most life like that man humanoid robot that can move around like a human and detect chemical leaks so what the hell is one of the biggest internet companies in the world doing purchasing these spooky cyborgs all telling me in google's keeping tight lipped about its intentions but keep in mind the corporation has a newly created secretive robot division and it's the bible on other contracts that boston and previously had with the u.s. military great so i guess the real question here is why should we trust a corporation that holds so much of our personal information to develop absurd war machines for ethical purposes after all we really want private companies and you know up with robots that can do this. i don't know if i'm read

he said yesterday sergey brin the little company purchased boston dynamics an engineering firm with strong ties to the military as defense advanced research projects agency or darpa so what is boston dynamics all about this terrifying and shah dropping robot such as big dog four legged robot that can climb hills or cheetah.

companies like boston dynamics are during support robots for the military that can carry supplies. the smallest self sufficient unit is a brigade combat team. remarks from a general suggest it could replace 1,000 of those soldiers with robotic systems. most robots are designed for support, like i say. following soldiers through hostile territory, carrying ammunition and other supplies. this robot called pet man is for testing clothing. consider that robots in the shape of a human being balancing in this way don't require we dining the army's equipment. the next step is weaponized robots. every branch of the military is looking at this. we saw life fire exercises. they were mobile armed prototypes. last year an autonomous war plane took off on its own and came back. it's worth noting that the technologies will end up in the civilian world. car technology replaced military drivers and google own several company, including boston dynamics. >> jake, how close are we to a killer robot. >> you've seen the movie. it ends badly. it's creepy stuff. technologically we are there. they can mak

. >> reporter: rob playter is with a company called boston dynamics. this is the home of "bigdog."gdog" was built at the behest of the pentagon's defense advanced research projects agency. they're seeking a mechanical mule for foot soldiers in the next four years or so. powered by a two-stroke engine, hydraulic actuators, a gyroscope, and some breakthrough software, this prototype can slog through some pretty rugged terrain. it has a remarkable sense of balance and the ability and agility to break a fall. >> reporter: so, what do you do? what is the way to, how do you, how do you teach a machine to walk? >> you have to you have to build them. you have to experiment with them. you have to push them. you have to kick them and see how they respond. rather than try to build a response to stepping on a rock or stepping on ice, what we try to build is a fundamental sort of core concept of balance and how to behave in-- in the gravitational field. >> reporter: boston dynamics is now developing at a two-legged robot called "petman" for the army. and, in florida, at the institute for human

. ♪ >> google made big headlines earlier this year when it bought boston dynamics.tomedian stephen col said, they may be purchased to rule the world. at m.i.t. the first self assembling robots in the world were made. was the director of the project. she is here with bob ross -- bob rice and died. how does this happen? -- bob rice and i. how does this happen? >> thank you. motion,ocks stands for -- and magic. magnets ones have the border, and that allows them cube,p on top of the connect with them, and together they can jump in even more surprising moves. and it is magic because if you look at the outside, they look like ordinary qubes. ordinarycu cubes? >> what are some ordinary applications of the technology? >> there are long-term applications in health care. there are many areas you can find that are difficult to get into. towers and bridges that are ethical to inspect and collate data about. these modules -- that are difficult to inspect and collate data about. these modules can crawl through narrow openings and collect a very valuable information. in gaming, be

they bought six robotic firms named boston dynamics that designs incredible robots for the pentagon, like a robotic mule that can carry up to 400 pound and walk easily over rough terrain. they are running the show when it comes to robotics. now it seems like they're actually trying to build a real android. an an destroyed getting in the game, too. they bought a robotics company in 2012. now i understand they give robots to move inventory around in their warehouse. they could save 20 to 40% of the typical order. hey, the unions seem to be worried. they didn't have much in the election. then the aerial drone delivery program, it will be difficult for that. let me get to the point. google believes in robots. smart company. amazon believes in robots. smart company. so should you believe in robots, too? asking about irobot, he meant a the stock irbt. not the will smith movie out of the same name. i told brian i would get back to him with the robot frenzy heating up here. i didn't like the trailer. i fixed this would be a good time to get back to him. irobot. it's the only publicly traded

you think about google, they made purchases, they bought boston dynamics, a robotics company -- >> they bought motorola. >> some may say it is more the patent portfolio than the company itself. that is still a work in progress. >> why did google buy this company? they have a dozen or so armor committees over the last year and many of them are robotics companies. we know they are working on google glass, driverless cars. where does nest fit in? where does it fit into google's broader ambitions and the future of technology? >> i think nest is a talent acquisition as much as anything else. you have 2 men who have inmate understanding on how to produce and design consumer friendly products. >> good hardware, good consumer hardware. >> desirable hardware. think about nest, it became -- >> and aspirational product. >> almost everything google has worked on is in the area of research in science than a gotta have it product. used tously they both work at apple good 100 of the 300 employees at nest used to work at apple. in a lot of ways nest looks and feels like an apple product. >> absolutely.

thermostats and acquired eight different robotics companies in the last six months, including boston dynamicss incredible robots for the pentagon, like a robotic mule that can carry up to 400 pounds and walk easily over rough terrain. andy ruben, is running the show when it comes to robotics and now it seems like he's actually trying to build a real android. amazon is getting in the game too. they bought a company called kiva and now amazon is using 1400 robots to move inventory around in warehouses. they could shave 20 to 40% off the cost of fulfilling orders. the unions seem to be worried. then there's the aerial drone delivery program although it will be difficult before that will come to fruition. let me get to the point. google believes in robots, smart company. amazon believes in robots, smart company. should you believe in robots too? we got a call from buy an in maryland asking by irobot by which he meant the stock irbt, and not the movie with will smith. the robo cop remake coming out in three weeks, i didn't like the trailer. i thought it would be a time to get back to him. i robot

you remember earlier this year google bought the military robot makers boston dynamics. keep an eye on cupertino's apple. it releases earnings after the bell. holiday sales could set records for the third consecutive year. iphone sales topping 50 million for the first time in company history. if the news is that good, investor carl icahn will likely increase his demand that apple do something with its big pile of cash. >> for a look at the rest of the market let's turn to bertha coombs. good morning. >> good morning, scott. caterpillar, reporting better than expected earnings, annou e announcing a $10 billion stock buyback. we're now looking at what looks like a higher open, seeing better trading for france, that is good news for the bulls after a sell-off when the dow fell more than 300 points, losing 3.5% for the week. invest terse watching emerging markets closely, though, currency crisis that helped fuel that sell-off last week continues to be one of the main things people will be watching. sam's club says it is letting go of about 2300 workers or 2% of its workforce

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over the past year google has snapped up several firms including boston dynamics as best we can rolled company known for building these animallike robots. and another retailer to the list for data breaches. eccles joins target and neiman marcus as latest business to be hit. posting a letter from the ceo saying we're working closely with federal law enforcement and conducting an investigation with the help of third-party data security experts to establish the facts. activity involves credit and debit cards use at michael's. this is not the first attack on the company. debit card processing was tampered with. michael's is owned taken private by bain capital and blackstone. lot of arts and crafts folks out there, as you know. tracy: too many glue guns. we have the winners, losers and of course dennis kneale on whether the music business might be the biggest loser of it all. ashley: and why they should get an award all by itself for becoming a sensation on twitter. tracy: what was he thinking. winners and losers on the nasdaq as we head out to break. the dow up 42 points. we will be right

airborne wind turbines and these creepy critters from boston dynamics.that has barely any relation to advertising. the company's lifeblood, so it is hard to tell whether all this is part of a cogent, overarching strategy or a food fight. throw lots of stuff up against the wall and see what sticks, trace isy. ashley: like a shotgun approach. you will hit something. tracy: it is working either way. you can't deny what is happening. they're doing something and simultaneously sort of taking over the world. >> i had an argument with a guy that formerly ran google x, secret research lab folding up a lot of acquisition. i said that has nothing to do with ads and they shouldn't be doing it. he kind of convinced me i was wrong. one thhng it is good for company pride. it helps lure best people when you do really cool stuff. it makes the company a better place to work. that brings better talent. tracy: it is about taking over the world. >> it is. ashley: they can afford the trial and error, let's face it. >> billions in profit mask a lot of failures, in motorola th

they have bought boston dynamics in the states, to make these creepy robots out of "star wars" and theyions for the military, but they also have other applications. they bought nest for $3.2 million, which is an extraordinary nerm. this is the maker of a thermostat that you can control via your iphone and it starts to -- it has an algorithm as well, so it learns the patterns you have for heating your home. >> dennis hasselby sorted this out, but this is a company that went out of its way to sort of find the best out of the u.k. they said come and help change the world. so google buying -- larry page led this acquisition himself, so is this aboutal incident. >> again, google sense, it makes google sense. it's about buying talent. these are two guys who basically came out of stanford and created their business. they understand that in these universities, whether it is cambridge, oxford, that you have incredible minds, incredible resources, incredible assets that can be applied to actual real business, to real problems. and so they've got these guys that now have an opportunity to syphon o

dynamic. >> last night we heard the professor at boston university -- abolish the corporate income talk altogethere tax policy center, the brookings institute. it's not heritage or kato, they say if you abolish the corporate tax, the biggest winners would be workers and wage-earners. how about that? now, that would be something. richard socarides, i'm going to bug you about this. >> that's some great research. >> he's not a reagan supply-sider, he's just a economist, and he's come up with these numbers from the tax policy center, which i think you would great is bakley objective, bipartisan, make left of center. that's where you get your working growth. we need jobs. i got to get out of here. richard, jim, thank you. >>> be sure to tune in on tuesday. we'll be broadcasting live to preview the president's state of the union address. now, it's not a great day for the energy boom. we're about to take you to texas, where a big part of the keystone pipeline has finally opened for business. believe it or not. stay with us, next up on "the kudlow report." ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] a car that is able to see,

dynamic to this case. if you speak to a lot of people in boston, most people believe that if ever there is a case for the deathlty, this case certainly would apply given the facts and given the maiming and the horrible deaths that we saw. >> horrendous event last april. i will never forget it. justice correspondent evan perez, what more can you share? >> brooke, this has been a big decision weighing on the attorney general for some weeks now. we thought maybe this was going to go down to the wire. we had until tomorrow to make a decision. there was a lot of difficult things on this one. the suspect is only 20 years old. there was a lot of push that he was too young to carry this out. he was under the influences of his brother was another issue that was brought up. federal authorities say the older brother was the big driver of this plot. although they say that he was a willing participant in the bombing. obviously this is an issue with massachusetts, the federal death penalty exists, but in massachusetts they haven't put anybody to death in that case. this is all things weighing on the mind of the attorney gen

boston herald" in our lobby every morning checking on what we did overnight. we have got community groups marching to the police station every time there's a problem. it's a very dynamic environment at the local level. the mayor from portland talks about police having cameras on their eyeglasses. when that happens, it will, i'll be able to put my internal affairs investigators back on the street. everything will be documented. >> when that happens, will you allow people to be arrested glass to film your officers? >> that's an important part of this conversation. more of that information we're collecting right now is exculpatory. everybody is looking at this as they're going to use it to put me in prison. it's going to clear a lot of people. it already has cleared a lot of people. at what point in time if you want to pursue the goals of justice, at what point in time do you stop collecting that information? at what point in time do you get a license plate connection that might clear someone of a murder charge? this cuts both ways. people have to understand that. >> in other words, you wouldn't have problems if normal citizens videotaped police at all times in their act

boston harrold in our lobby checking on what we did overnight. we have community groups march together police station every time there's a problem. there's -- it's a dynamic environment at the local level. and the mayor from portland talked about police having cameras on the eye glasses. when it happens, i it will. i will able to take my 25 investigatorrers and put them on the street. everything will be documented. >> when that happens, will you allow people being arrested to use google glass to film your officers? >> that's an important component to the conversation that nobody talked about. more of that information we're collecting right now is exculpatory. they are going to use the information to put me in prison. it's going clear a lot of people. it already has. at what point in time if you want to pursue the goal of justice. at what point in time do you stop collecting that ?fertion at what point of time do you get read rid a license plate reader collection that might clear somebody of a rape or murder charge. it cuts both ways. >> so in other words you wouldn't have problem with normal citizens video tape police at all times in their action using go