{"id":26484,"date":"2016-06-05T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T19:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/toyota-is-the-top-bidder-for-robotics-pioneer-boston-dynamics"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:40:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:40:13","slug":"toyota-is-the-top-bidder-for-robotics-pioneer-boston-dynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/toyota-is-the-top-bidder-for-robotics-pioneer-boston-dynamics","title":{"rendered":"Toyota is the top bidder for robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the past couple of months, Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet has been looking to offload its robotics division<\/a>, Boston Dynamics, as it seeks to divert its attention to self-driving cars. Toyota\u2019s Research Institute was thought to interested in picking up the company from the start, but Nikkei<\/em> is now reporting<\/a> that the car maker\u2019s R&D arm is close to signing a deal for not only Boston Dynamics, but also Google\u2019s Japanese robotics company, Schaft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the newspaper, the Toyota Research Institute will use its $1 billion budget to purchase both companies. The Institute was established in November 2015<\/a> to develop AI, robotics and autonomous car technologies and opened its first facility in Silicon Valley in January.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Tech Insider<\/em> reported<\/a> that the \u201cink is nearly dry\u201d on the deal, suggesting it won\u2019t be long until Alphabet and Toyota formally announce the trade. It added autonomous vehicle specialist Jaybridge Robotics to its team in March, now it\u2019s looking to bolster its team ahead of a possible rollout of self-driving cars in 2020. Let\u2019s hope Spot<\/a>, Atlas<\/a> and AlphaDog<\/a> make the journey too.<\/p>\n

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Over the past couple of months, Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet has been looking to offload its robotics division, Boston Dynamics, as it seeks to divert its attention to self-driving cars. Toyota\u2019s Research Institute was thought to interested in picking up the company from the start, but Nikkei is now reporting that the car maker\u2019s R&D [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26484","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\/26484","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=26484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41420,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26484\/revisions\/41420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}