Comments on: Boston Dynamics wishes us the most terrifying holiday ever – Geek https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/12/24/boston-dynamics-wishes-us-the-most-terrifying-holiday-ever-geek/ All about electronics and circuit design Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:00:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/12/24/boston-dynamics-wishes-us-the-most-terrifying-holiday-ever-geek/comment-page-1/#comment-1550320 Fri, 09 Jun 2017 10:34:25 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=36990#comment-1550320 ngrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Softbank is buying robotics firms Boston Dynamics and Schaft from Alphabet — Here’s a surprise turn of events: Softbank — maker of the friendly Pepper robot and a major M&A player in the tech world — has just announced that it is acquiring two more robotics companies from Google owner Alphabet …

Softbank is buying robotics firms Boston Dynamics and Schaft from Alphabet
https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/08/softbank-is-buying-robotics-firm-boston-dynamics-and-schaft-from-alphabet/

Here’s a surprise turn of events: Softbank — maker of the friendly Pepper robot and a major M&A player in the tech world — has just announced that it is acquiring two more robotics companies from Google owner Alphabet as part of its own deeper move into the field: it is buying Big Dog developer Boston Dynamics and the secretive bipedal robotics firm Schaft.

A spokesperson for Softbank has confirmed to us that the terms of the deal are not being disclosed

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