The Google Robot, Your Future Logistics Worker
Adrian Gonzalez
December 16, 2013
Last Friday, news came out that Google bought Boston Dynamics, a robotics company based in Waltham, MA. Boston Dynamics’ tagline is “Changing Your Idea of
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