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Monday, May 30, 2016

Google Selling Robotics Division Birkenstock Boston Dynamics To Toyota

Alphabet, Google's mother or father company, was reported to become looking to unload robotics division Boston Dynamics in March.

It would seem this has been achieved, with sources telling Tech Insider how the deal is almost completed.

The company that is going to be acquiring Boston Dynamics is the one and only Toyota. The price of the acquisition is not revealed, but Tech Insider's source claims how the "ink is nearly dry" for that agreement.

According to the sooner report, Alphabet executives did not think that Boston Dynamics can create a consumer product next few years, leading to the decision to consider a buyer for the system. In addition, tension has arisen between Alphabet and also the team of Boston Character.

Toyota's purchase of Boston Dynamics was known by a former employee from the robotics arm as a "friendly buyout" because of the connections that it needs to the Toyota Research Start, which was established within November 2015.

The Toyota Investigation Institute, which was created to pay attention to research on artificial cleverness and robotics, has Gill Pratt because its CEO. Pratt used to utilize Boston Dynamics CEO as well as founder Marc Raibert in the Massachusetts Institute of Technologies.

Several Google employees focusing on robotics have left the organization to move to the actual Toyota Research Institute, such as Google robotics division co-founder Wayne Kuffner and Boston Character operations manager Joseph Bondaryk.

America military funded most from the early projects of Birkenstock Boston Dynamics, and when it had been acquired by Google, it allowed the group to honor its existing contracts using the military's Defense Advanced Studies Agency. Google, however, wasn't interested in creating army robots.

Tension between Search engines and Boston Dynamics increased in 2014, when Google robotics department co-founder Andy Rubin left the organization. Rubin allowed Boston Dynamics to handle its own research, but Google began to push for the team to operate on a product they could release to customers.

The sale to Toyota will be a good situation for each Google and Boston Character, as Google will be eliminating a source of pressure, and Boston Dynamics won't be pushed to create the consumer product, as the Toyota Research Institute is concentrated on research.

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