{"id":26182,"date":"2016-05-29T05:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T12:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/toyota-is-closing-in-on-a-deal-to-buy-googles-robotics-company-boston-dynamics-and-the-ink-is-nearly-dry"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:43:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:43:07","slug":"toyota-is-closing-in-on-a-deal-to-buy-googles-robotics-company-boston-dynamics-and-the-ink-is-nearly-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/toyota-is-closing-in-on-a-deal-to-buy-googles-robotics-company-boston-dynamics-and-the-ink-is-nearly-dry","title":{"rendered":"Toyota is closing in on a deal to buy Google\u2019s robotics company Boston Dynamics, and the \u2018ink is nearly dry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/toyota-is-closing-in-on-a-deal-to-buy-googles-robotics-company-boston-dynamics-and-the-ink-is-nearly-dry.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One misstep after another for Boston Dynamics. First they get bought by the bunglers at Google, who dont want to do business with the Pentagon, so they buy a company who almost exclusively works for the Pentagon, and now getting sold to a foreign electronics company.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty sad treatment for the company making some of the best robotics in the world. It should be sold to a US defense contractor.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Google is selling off robotics company Boston Dynamics, and Toyota is a serious contender.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techinsider.io\/toyota-in-talks-to-acquire-boston-dynamics-from-google-2016-5\">http:\/\/www.techinsider.io\/toyota-in-talks-to-acquire-boston-...2016&#45;5<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One misstep after another for Boston Dynamics. First they get bought by the bunglers at Google, who dont want to do business with the Pentagon, so they buy a company who almost exclusively works for the Pentagon, and now getting sold to a foreign electronics company. Pretty sad treatment for the company making some of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50372,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26182\/revisions\/50372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}