According to the latest information, Alphabet holding company (owned by Google) decided to sell its most high-tech robotics division just three years after it was purchased. Information-analytical Agency Bloomberg reports that the company Boston Dynamics, famous for its four-legged and bipedal robots able to walk, run and jump, and also has an outstanding balance, looking for a new owner.
In the Bloomberg report indicated that among the potential buyers include Amazon and Toyota. The Agency notes that this unexpected step from Google might indicate the company’s desire to leave the field of robotics, fields, beloved former Executive Director of Google’s Andy Rubin.
Videos with robots, the company collects tens of millions of views, not just the source of inspiration for journalists for writing and inspiring at the same time frightening horror stories about our gloomy and captured by the robots of the world. To be honest, we are such articles written. We all dreaded that, before its acquisition by Google company Boston Dynamics has worked on various military contracts and that the company can still be stored or even in secret to develop secret military projects related to robotics. According to a report by Bloomberg, tried to find among his massive portfolio of ambitious research projects place and the commercialization of products of the company Boston Dynamics. It is possible that the venture was not successful.
The lack of capacity on the company’s profitability, most likely, put an end to her relationship with Google and, most likely, will lead to the opening of the auction and the search for new interested buyers. Among such interested buyers may be, for example, Amazon, which has invested in the development of robotics is very serious money. For example, in 2012 it was acquired Kiva Systems, which Amazon had to pay 775 million dollars. Thanks to this, Amazon has developed a number of robotic solutions that have accelerated the speed and effectiveness of its warehouses, and one recent trend is active development of drones-postmen. Another potential buyer is the company Toyota, which uses robots in its production and even created a Department that deals with automation of industry.
The acquisition of Boston Dynamics was carried out by Andy Rubin, a very outstanding Executive officer of Google, who led the development of the Android mobile operating system. Rubin has left Google in October of 2014 and now works for a Playground company, which has already been dubbed a “technology incubator with a heavy emphasis in robotics”. After he left Boston Dynamics has failed to adapt and integrate other Google robotic departments located in California and Japan. But the latest demonstration of the company has caused serious concerns about the fact that robots will soon can really replace humans in the workplace. And this, in turn, the last thing Alphabet would like to associate oneself. This in turn could become the definitive trait of the host company under the wing of Google and Alphabet.