Google was barking up the wrong tree with its robot dogs

The search firm’s purchase of Boston Dynamics in 2013 seemed a bit out of character. And guess what? It was

What do you do when you have $43bn (£30bn) in your back pocket? Why, you buy companies like there’s no tomorrow. A couple of years ago, Google decided that it needed to get into robotics, so it went shopping for robotics companies. It picked up eight, all for the search giant’s equivalent of small change.

What the hell was a search company doing getting involved in this business? Now we know: it didn’t have a clue

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