From the article: "But Boston Dynamics’s creations were not quite as advanced as people assumed. The main problem the company had solved was getting its machin

From the article: "But Boston Dynamics’s creations were not quite as advanced as people assumed. The main problem the company had solved was getting its machines to move in a realistic manner, said a person familiar with the company’s technology, but full autonomy is far away. Marc Raibert, the founder of Boston Dynamics, said as much in an interview with IEEE Spectrum in February, when he acknowledged that in the videos, a human steered the robot via radio during its outside strolls." So basically what they created was fancy R/C toys, not real autonomous and potentially beneficial robots that could do real work? Creating realistic movement is a hard problem, and the associated electronics and algorithms to move from point A to point B, but it's hardly novel. Maybe this coupled with the fact a few others have mentioned the company was poor at working with other divisions is the reason why they want to sell it?