<div dir="auto">I believe Google sold Boston Dynamics to SoftBank Group of Japan. Raibert appears to be the Chairman still.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-----------------------------------<br>Frank Wimberly<br><br>Phone (505) 670-9918</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 12:24 AM Prof David West <<a href="mailto:profwest@fastmail.fm">profwest@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There was a Sixty Minutes episode a few years back re: who owned the largest automated army on the planet? It was all about Boston Dynamics robots. But the punch line was that Google owns them, and hence the Army.<br>
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Depending on whether or not employees or executives control Google politics, it is not clear whose side the robots would be on.<br>
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, at 8:25 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<br>
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