Google bought seven robotic companies in the past six months-Schaft, Industrial Perception, Meka, Redwood Robotics, Bot & Dolly, Autofocus and Holomni-for an effort to create manufacturing and logistics robots under former Android Head Andy Robin.

Andy Rubin will be in charge of quite the budget, it seems although Google didn’t disclose numbers, as Larry Page himself took the Google+ to congratulate the ex-Android chief for his future strokes of genius on the way to creating our robotic overloads. It’s not clear what kind of robots the group will build, but several of the companies involved previously built humanoid robotic arms and it seems like Rubin is suggesting that Google’s creation might be able to move, reach and grab things like a person.

In an interview with the New York Times, Rubin said that he had convinced Google founder Sergey Brin and Larry Page that now was the time to make a move into robotics, even though such a plan might not deliver results in short term. “Like any moonshot, you have to think of time as a factor we need enough runway and a 10-year vision” Rubin told the paper.

The robotics efforts will not be aimed at consumers, but rather industrial applications with Rubin pointing to opportunities in manufacturing and logistics, highlighting frustrations with the complexity of the consumer electronics industry, which is dominated by labor-intensive assembly.

With Rubin at the helm, it looks like Google’s robotics hobby is going to turn into a full-fledged business. After tackling search, advertising, e-mail, mapping, browsers, video, social networks, internet access, mobile phones and laptops, perhaps robotics looks to be next big business for Google.