Toyota reportedly mulling buying Google's robotics unit

Toyota Motor Corp. is in talks to buy Boston Dynamics, a robotics unit of Google Inc., news website Tech Insider has reported. Terms for the deal are not known, but Tech Insider quoted a source familiar with the matter as saying that the ink "is nearly dry." Boston Dynamics was established in 1992 and acquired by Google in 2013. It mainly develops biped and quadruped robots. In January, the nation's leading automaker established the Toyota Research Institute in California for research and development on artificial intelligence to be used in self-driving cars and robots.