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Google decided to sell Boston Dynamics
Alphabet (owner of Google) put up for sale the company Boston Dynamics, known as a developer of humanoid and canine robots.
Information about the sale of Boston Dynamics to Bloomberg was confirmed by two sources close to Alphabet. Among possible buyers, they named Toyota Research Institute and Amazon.com Inc. There is no official confirmation of this information yet.
The decision to sell was made due to the fact that Boston Dynamics "is unlikely to create a marketable product in the next few years", and also because of the unwillingness of the division's management to cooperate with other engineers from the Replicant group, which is engaged in robotics at Google.
In December, Google announced that Replicant was being transferred to the Google X Advanced Research Group. […] However, Boston Dynamics was never transferred to Google X, but put up for sale. After posting the latest video on YouTube in February, Google's PR department expressed displeasure that Alphabet would be associated with building humanoid robots.