Hyundai Motor Group completes acquisition of Boston Dynamics
In June 2021 Hyundai Motor Group completed its purchase of a controlling 80 percent stake in Boston Dynamics from SoftBank, in a deal that valued the robot maker at US$1.1 billion.
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Uber sells its self-driving unit ATG to Aurora
On 7 December 2020, Aurora announced it was acquiring Uber's self-driving unit, the Advanced Technologies Group, with Uber investing 400 million dollars in Aurora and its chief executive joining Aurora's board.
SoftBank agrees to acquire Boston Dynamics from Alphabet
On 9 June 2017 SoftBank Group announced that a subsidiary had agreed to buy Boston Dynamics from Alphabet, together with the Japanese bipedal-robotics company Schaft. The terms were not disclosed.
Google acquires DeepMind
On 26 January 2014 Google confirmed its acquisition of DeepMind, the London AI company founded in 2010. The deal brought a small deep-learning research group known for Atari-playing systems into Google and set up a unit later merged with Google Brain.
Google acquires Boston Dynamics
In December 2013 Google confirmed it had completed its acquisition of Boston Dynamics, the eighth robotics company it had bought in six months, as part of a robotics effort led by Andy Rubin.
Google acquires DNNresearch
In March 2013 the University of Toronto announced that Google had acquired DNNresearch, a start-up incorporated in 2012 by Geoffrey Hinton and two of his graduate students for work on deep neural networks.
Amazon agrees to acquire Kiva Systems
In March 2012 Amazon agreed to buy Kiva Systems, a maker of warehouse robots used by large retailers, for about $775 million in cash — the company's second-largest acquisition at the time.
Apple acquires Siri
In April 2010 Apple bought Siri, a San Jose start-up whose app answered spoken requests on the iPhone; the deal, reported by The New York Times, put voice-driven assistance on the path to becoming a built-in phone feature.