SoftBank is buying robotics group Boston Dynamics — the makers of the bipedal Atlas, the jumping Sand Flea and the animal-like BigDog, Spot and Wildcat robots — from Alphabet, more than a year after Google’s parent first put the unit up for sale.
The terms of SoftBank’s acquisition, which also includes Japanese robotics group Schaft, were not disclosed.
Google bought Boston Dynamics, a pioneer in mechanical robotics that originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in late 2013 at a time when Andy Rubin, creator of the Android mobile operating system, was assembling a group of roboticists for a project known internally as Replicant.
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