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  • robots could drive handy from humdrum toe.

  • High tech South Korean group Onda chairman is buying an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics, following the company about about $1.1 billion.

  • At first glance, they make a pretty odd couple.

  • Boston Dynamics is famous for its robotic dogs and bipeds.

  • Yanda is better known for its cozy family cars like the Santa Fe, but the seller Softbank is holding onto 1/5 of the shares.

  • That suggests that Softbank's Masayoshi son sees real value in this company.

  • Under Honda's ownership on You may be onto something high, and I already makes its own robots designed to help laborers and the physically disabled.

  • It's also making so called flying cars or drones on autonomous vehicles, all of which could benefit from the kind of technology Boston Dynamics has its chairman is in.

  • Chung says that he wants robotics and M ability to make up about half of the group's top line in the future.

  • If he's serious about that strategy, then he may well manage to make the loss making robot maker into something more than a pet project.

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