Google's Selling Boston Dynamics -- but Who's Buying? -- The Motley Fool

Meet Atlas, designed by Boston Dynamics, funded by DARPA. You buy your kid a new toy, and a few weeks later, you find it tossed into a corner, forgotten and unloved. Well, something similar just happened at Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) -- although it took years, rather than weeks, to happen. Three years after buying itself probably the coolest robot company on Earth, Google has gotten bored -- and is selling Boston Dynamics. History is awesome Struck by the potential for building robots, and outfitting them with artificial intelligence, Google spent much of 2013 running around, frantically buying up robotics companies.