Robot Cleaner, lanky mechanical dogs that overturns and super creepy humanoid Atlas. Boston Dynamics has really provided the world with laughter and minor heart attacks. But so far lacking a marketable product and now Google’s parent Alphabet tired of the slow pace of development. And a report revealing that they might be getting ready to sell the robot workshop, reveals Bloomberg News.
Boston Dynamics came in under the Google umbrella for just over two years ago. And there is no shortage of headlines that allows owners are now looking to sell the business, rather it is the wrong headlines. The company is known for the four-legged robot Big Dog and the slow humanoid Atlas. Several of them have had success on Youtube and it is impressive solutions that they have presented. But maybe it’s not quite what Alphabet wished rather see now that it’s too far to go before robots become marketable products.
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Google has for years invested in research and development of the robotics required in self-driving cars. Robot manufacturer Boston Dynamics has however worked a lot with the US military’s research department DARPA and has been involved in various military projects. Therefore, the election was seen buying Boston Dynamics as a little odd and out of the mainstream of consumer products like Google focused on normally.
An analysts still wonder why Alphabet leave now aside after only two years. Dan Olds of The Gabriel Consulting Group believes that it all may depend on the companies’ different management teams have fundamentally different views on how the collaboration should go to, especially with Google’s robot staff.
“Plus it that Google wanted to Boston team would present a salable product much earlier,” he said.
Boston Dynamics sold would a potential buyer has much to gain from the deal. The company has been part of the development of robotics since 1992.
” I do not think it will take another 24 years before the machines are truly commercially viable. Take Atlas robot as an example, give the five test rounds and you have a truly useful robot within five to eight years, “said Mike Gennert, head of the robotics program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Anonymous sources tell Bloomberg that both Toyota and Amazon could be potential buyers. The question that hangs in the air is what a possible sale mean for Google’s robotics efforts. They say goodbye altogether, or they have other plans?
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