Google bought a lot of robotic stuff lately, along with DeepMind Technologies and Nest Labs, Inc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ions_by_Google
It's funny people are so sceptical about fx the Xbox One Kinnect, when you think about how much Google is trying to take over our lives.
I won't call myself paranoid, but I stopped looking at Google as a positive thing.
The whole Google book-scanning case changed my mind, and with todays change in their Terms & Conditions making it ok for them to scan emails to sell ads didn't make it any better.