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Boston Dynamics, Inc., is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts , Boston Dynamics has been owned by the Hyundai Motor Group since December 2020, but it only completed the acquisition in June 2021.
In December 2020, Hyundai Motor Group acquired an 80% stake of Boston Dynamics from SoftBank for approximately $880 million. SoftBank retains about 20% through an affiliate. [129] In January 2021, SoftBank sold $2 billion in Uber Technologies shares through affiliate firm SB Cayman. [130]
Atlas is the name used for multiple robot models produced by American robotics company Boston Dynamics.. The first Atlas robot was a bipedal hydraulic humanoid robot primarily developed by Boston Dynamics with funding and oversight from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Boston Dynamics' Big Dog. Source: Company website. These robots remind me of Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian classic novel, Fahrenheit 451 , in which the protagonist, Guy Montag, is pursued through ...
Boston Dynamics unveiled Wednesday a new version of its humanoid robot, “Atlas,” that the company says is “designed for real-world applications.”
As Gizmodo reports, this is the third time in seven years that the unprofitable Boston Dynamics has changed hands. Hyundai bought Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B — now build a walking car! Skip ...
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Colleen F. Arnold joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -28.0 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped military robot platform that was created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with the Harvard University Concord Field Station. [1] It was funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), but the project was shelved after the BigDog's gas engine was deemed too loud for combat.