> I still wonder why Google sold Boston Dynamics It's a money pit, albeit a cool one. But that doesn't matter. Ruthless doesn't see the coolness, just the doll

> I still wonder why Google sold Boston Dynamics It's a money pit, albeit a cool one. But that doesn't matter. Ruthless doesn't see the coolness, just the dollar signs. > and no other transportation or defense manufacturer scooped them up See "money pit." Defense manufacturers are all about how to extract money from the government, and this doesn't do that for at least 10 more years. Transportation is already a cut-throat industry built around fees and doublespeak, so... no joy there either. Boston Dynamics needs a R&D friendly rich company to leech off while doing their work, which could cost upward of a billion dollars over the next five years. Softbank, from what I can tell, is pretty much exactly that - they're willing to invest in Uber for goodness sake...