Get the latest news and analysis in the stock market today, including national and world stock market news, business news, financial news and more. Alphabet Just Unloaded Its Crazy Robots on Japanese Telecom Softbank. Three years after acquiring the MIT robotics lab Boston Dynamics, makers of Atlas and other scary bots, Alphabet Googles parent company is selling it off to Softbank, a Japanese telecommunications company already known for its less terrifying robots like Pepper that might soon be getting some impressive upgrades. It turns out that posting You. Tube videos of nightmare inducing robots isnt as profitable as once hoped. Details of the sale, like how much Softbank paid for Googles now defunct Replicant division havent been revealed yet. Youll recall the skunkworks was founded by Android creator Andy Rubin before he left Alphabet to make smartphones again. But the sale also includes Schaft, another talented robot builder which dominated the DARPA challenge a few years ago.
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