Google seeks a buyer for robotics developer Boston Dynamics

Roland Moore-Colyer
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Lack of a marketable product no good to Google's parent company Alphabet

Alphabet, the company that owns Google, has put robotics developer Boston Dynamics up for sale. The company had gained worldwide headlines earlier this month with a video of its next-generation ...

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