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Hyundai in talks to acquire Boston Dynamics
(therobotreport.com)
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stowie1012
6y ago
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Hyundai Motor is in talks to acquire Boston Dynamics from SoftBank Group. The deal could be worth as much as $1 billion. Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992 as a spin-off out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was acquired by
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From what I know, their robots just didn't work that well and the quality wasn't there. They burned through $150M in funding, which shows they didn't have a great product, just a well-known co-founder who was one of the iRobo