Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots (Published 2013)Boston Dynamics’ four-legged robot named WildCat can gallop at high speeds.Credit...Boston Dynamics SAN FRANCISCO — BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google’s growing robot menagerie. Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Mass.
