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Still find it comical that Masayoshi sold it to Hyundai instead of Tesla. BD was the perfect fit for Tesla at the time. Now not so much and I am glad BD isn’t
by lvl155 2y ago
Still find it comical that Masayoshi sold it to Hyundai instead of Tesla. BD was the perfect fit for Tesla at the time.
Now not so much and I am glad BD isn’t under Tesla umbrella.
- snek_case 2y agoSo in 2013 Google bought Boston Dynamics, then later sold them in 2017. The rumor is that BD didn't play nice with the rest of Google. They wanted to just keep doing whatever they wanted and not be told what to do. I think that if Tesla had bought BD, it may have been more trouble than it's worth. They might have had to fire a lot of the staff, and then I'm not sure what they would have been left with. Tesla is trying to optimize for production cost and mass manufacturing whereas BD doesn't care about cost. It also seems to me like BD hasn't done much in the AI realm. They've focused a lot more on the locomotion and have been using classic robotics techniques.
- modeless 2y agoDid Tesla want to buy BD? Haven't heard that before.