Toyota is close to acquiring two robotics companies from Google, according to a report in Wednesday’s Nikkei newspaper.
The newspaper said the two companies are in final talks, but details are yet to be discussed and the deal could still fall through.
The deal would see Boston Dynamics, a developer of advanced two- and four-legged robots for the U.S. military, and Schaft, a Tokyo-based developer of humanoid robots, transferred to the Toyota Research Institute. The unit is a recently launched billion-dollar research arm based in Silicon Valley.
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Source: COMPUTER WORLD