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Alphabet ( GOOGL ) has put military robotics company Boston Dynamics up for sale after failing to find a path to commercializing its technology in the near term, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Alphabet’s Google X unit bought Boston Dynamics in late 2013 as part of series of acquisitions in the robotics field. Boston Dynamics is best known for its “Terminator”-style Atlas bipedal robot and quadrupedal robots like BigDog and Cheetah. Videos of the robots in action have been hits on YouTube, generating tens of millions of views. Possible acquirers of Boston Dynamics include the Toyota Research Institute, a division of Toyota Motor ( TM ), and Amazon.com ( AMZN ), which makes robots for its fulfillment centers, Bloomberg said . Alphabet’s decision to put Boston Dynamics on the block could indicate a retreat from the robotics field, which was led by Google executive and Android co-founder Andy Rubin, who left the company in October 2014. Recently Alphabet has been focused on making sure that all of the umbrella corporation’s far-flung investments start generating real revenue. They decided that Boston Dynamics was unlikely to have marketable product in the next few years and opted to put the unit up for sale, Bloomberg said. RELATED: Americans Freaking Out About Robots Taking Jobs, But Not Their Jobs Next-Gen Robots Poised To Enter Industrial, Commercial Markets iRobot Sells Military Robot Division To Focus On Home Robots . Scalper1 News
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