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by venachescu 3295 days ago
Mostly because it was a rushed and not totally thought out acquisition - Boston Dynamics never wanted to leave Boston and has always been about legged locomotion, Google wanted them to change and they didn't.
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oh_sigh 3295 days ago
Google has an office in Cambridge which is right next door to Boston.
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venachescu 3295 days ago
But all of their other robots that they bought are in the bay!

Except for SCHAFT, who, apparently were also bought by SoftBank today so go figure.

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