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Re:Amazon executives are worried they'll run out of people t... by killjoywashere on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @10:51AM (#27529165)
A non-trivial amount of Boston Dynamics' funding came from DoD. Pretty sure Google was not interested in sustaining those contracts but without them it was likely a net loss.
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Re:Amazon executives are worried they'll run out of people t... by caseysoftware on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @11:12AM (#27529411)
Google knew that going in. Even if it hadn't been public knowledge (it was), it would have come out during due diligence.

There has to be a different reason, we just can't tell what it is.

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Re:Amazon executives are worried they'll run out of people t... by marktangotango on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @11:20AM (#27529507)
My assumption is that the tech makes good videos, but is basically limited in what it can do, without someone always offscreen handling the controls.
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