{"id":26334,"date":"2016-06-01T12:32:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T19:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/toyota-in-talks-to-buy-walthams-boston-dynamics-from-googles-parent-alphabet"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:58:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:58:20","slug":"toyota-in-talks-to-buy-walthams-boston-dynamics-from-googles-parent-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/toyota-in-talks-to-buy-walthams-boston-dynamics-from-googles-parent-alphabet","title":{"rendered":"Toyota in talks to buy Waltham\u2019s Boston Dynamics from Google\u2019s parent, Alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/toyota-in-talks-to-buy-walthams-boston-dynamics-from-googles-parent-alphabet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both Toyota and Honda would make sense as buyers. Toyota\u2019s TRI has been ramping up on AI technology and Honda has been working on AI such as as Asimo for over a decade.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The car company may acquire Alphabet\u2019s Boston Dynamics, known for a spry robot called Cheetah, and Schaft, a company working on humanoid robots, <a href=\"http:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/Deals\/Toyota-nearing-deal-to-buy-robot-maker-Boston-Dynamics-from-Google\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyo\u2019s Nikkei reported<\/a> Wednesday. The potential acquisition would allow Toyota to make serious strides in its robotics division, while Alphabet could unload elements of its own underperforming robotics unit.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/blog\/techflash\/2016\/06\/toyota-in-talks-to-buy-waltham-robotics-firm-from.html\">http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/blog\/techflash\/2016\/06\/toy...-from.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Toyota and Honda would make sense as buyers. Toyota\u2019s TRI has been ramping up on AI technology and Honda has been working on AI such as as Asimo for over a decade. The car company may acquire Alphabet\u2019s Boston Dynamics, known for a spry robot called Cheetah, and Schaft, a company working on humanoid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26334","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67380,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26334\/revisions\/67380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}