Get ready for the Googlebot: Search giant to start selling humanoid robot after pulling out of military 'robo olympics'

* Machine has already won Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) 'robogames'
* The eight-part 'rescue challenge' was inspired by the nuclear meltdown at Fuskushima during the 2011 Japanese tsunami, where it was realized robots could do very little to help
* Machine has now been pulled from contest so Google can begin work on a commercial version of it

Google is to start selling a humanoid robot which can walk, climb, use tools and even drive a car.

Call Schaft, the robot was developed by a Japanese firm bought by Google.

It recently won a military 'robo-olympics' - but Google has revealed the machine is being pulled from future rounds of the contest so it can be developed into the firm's first commercial robot.

Schaft's 1.48m (4ft 11in) tall, two-legged robot entered the contest the favourite and lived up to its reputation.

It makes use of a new high-voltage liquid-cooled motor technology that uses a capacitor, rather a battery, for power.

Its engineers say this lets its arms move and pivot at higher speeds than would otherwise be possible, in effect giving it stronger 'muscles'.

Naturally this is being promoted as a rescue robot. Would you want a Jew programmed super powered robot in your house? Long before the Golem began killing all humans it would be sending reports of anti-semitism back to the Googleplex to be filed for later action.