Alphabet Just Unloaded Its Crazy Robots on Japanese Telecom Softbank. Three years after acquiring the MIT robotics lab Boston Dynamics, makers of Atlas and other scary bots, Alphabet Googles parent company is selling it off to Softbank, a Japanese telecommunications company already known for its less terrifying robots like Pepper that might soon be getting some impressive upgrades. It turns out that posting You. Tube videos of nightmare inducing robots isnt as profitable as once hoped. Details of the sale, like how much Softbank paid for Googles now defunct Replicant division havent been revealed yet. Youll recall the skunkworks was founded by Android creator Andy Rubin before he left Alphabet to make smartphones again. But the sale also includes Schaft, another talented robot builder which dominated the DARPA challenge a few years ago. Its been a little over two years since Google now Alphabet decided to scoop up robotics labRead more Read. Alphabet has reportedly been trying to sell off its robot division for almost a year now, with companies like Amazon and Toyota initially suspected as possible buyers. While Boston Dynamics has been responsible for creating some of the most advanced robots ever developed, including the humanoid Atlas, and the four legged Spot and Big Dog, advanced technologies dont come cheap. The Peony Pavilion at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase Archive footage of The Peony Pavilion in rehearsal at Jacobs Pillow in 1999 Peony Pavilion at Project Gutenberg. Korean movie reviews from 2017. Fabricated City. Theres a sense of mischief in the air from the very opening scenes of Park Kwanghyuns Fabricated City. Inner Workings Theater Movie' title='Inner Workings Theater Movie' />L. A. Times entertainment news from Hollywood including event coverage, celebrity gossip and deals. View photo galleries, read TV and movie reviews and more. Created by Aaron Sorkin. 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The reality is that Alphabet was still staring down years of expensive R D before it could profitably sell its robotic creations, and Boston Dynamics and Schaft became victims of the companys efforts to scale back its bleeding edge moonshot investments. We got our first glimpse of Boston Dynamics newest robot about a month ago after footage leakedRead more Read. Back in February, Boston Dynamics revealed a bot called Handle, a two wheeled version of Atlas that the labs founder, Marc Raibert, claimed could be built and sold much cheaper than bots like Atlas. By that point Alphabet was already shopping Boston Dynamics and Schaft around as part of cost saving and restructuring initiatives that saw other moonshot projects getting axed as well. And many suspected that Handle, who had undoubtedly been in development for a while already, was only revealed as a way to sweeten the pot for potential buyers. Boston Dynamics, better known for the hulking robot brute known as ATLAS, has just revealed aRead more Read. So what does Softbank want with Boston Dynamics and Schaft The Japanese telecommunications giant has already poured mountains of cash into developing its friendly looking Pepper and NAO robots, after acquiring Aldebaran Robotics in 2. Fetch Robotics in 2. Demand for Pepper and NAO in Japan has been huge, with Softbank selling out of limited runs almost as soon as theyre made available. So the company is clearly confident theres enough immediate consumer demand to make a few dollars selling bots. In a press release issued about the acquisition, Softbanks Chairman CEO Masayoshi Son praised the work Boston Dynamics has done. Smart robotics are going to be a key driver of the next stage of the Information Revolution, and Marc and his team at Boston Dynamics are the clear technology leaders in advanced dynamic robots. I am thrilled to welcome them to the Soft. Bank family and look forward to supporting them as they continue to advance the field of robotics and explore applications that can help make life easier, safer and more fulfilling. But will Softbank take the same approach that Google did and just let Boston Dynamics and Schaft develop advanced robots for the sake of pushing the field forward Or does it plan to merge them with its existing robotics teams in hopes of making robots like Pepper and NAO more appealing to consumers R D is expensive, and its safe to assume that Boston Dynamics and Schaft didnt come cheap, so the company will almost certainly carefully balance both approaches, which means your dreams of a robot butler are suddenly a lot closer to becoming reality. Orphan Black recap Season 5, Episode 4. Science has always been one of the core components of Orphan Black, but so has power who has it, who loses it, and what those people do to wield or gain it. Now, with P. T. Westmoreland in the picture and Rachel by his side, were seeing more of those inner workings than ever before. Were also getting revelations about those early attempts to push the boundaries of human evolution yep, that thing in the woods was an experiment gone awry and the splintering effect it had on the top of the Neolution pyramid. So while Ss plans uncovered a wealth of information and a familiar face or two, Kira also did some experimenting of her own in hopes of learning more about her special abilities. In honor of these revelations, this week well run the clones through our trusted Orphan Black Clone Status Hyper Sequence Generator Calcutron and export them by whos discovered the most this week. Please enjoy the data set below. ScienceSarah. Much to Sarahs displeasure, Kira wont tell her much about her meetings with Rachel but Sarah does uncover a nasty cut on Kiras arm, which she thinks Rachel inflicted until her daughter admits she did it herself to see how fast she could heal. Unable to provide the answers she seeks and with three days until she has to go back to Dyad, S asks Felix to take Kira while she takes Sarah on a recon mission  she has a lead that may help them get some leverage. Their mark is a Dr. Elizabeth Perkins, who, S tells Sarah, could have a key to P. T. Westmoreland  but they need her wallet. Ss intel the woman likes to drink and has a rough relationship with her own daughter gives them the perfect setup They stage a fight, and Sarah throws a drink at S and grabs Dr. Perkins wallet as Perkins makes sure S is all right and then invites her to sit down for another drink. Turns out, Dr. Perkins is a psychologist studying, in her words, how PTSD co occurs with major depressive disorders, and shes in town for some case studies. Return To Neverland Free Online. One person shes supposed to meet is an Alex Ripley, who is supposedly a high level Neolution defector who may be being held against her will at a nearby mental health facility. S and Sarah are going to go in as Dr. Perkins and her assistant to check it out. Sarah, meanwhile, realizes theres no way Ss usual methods would have known about the Neo. She wont say where her intel came from, but Im pretty sure we already know remember when Delphine stopped by her doorOnce the bespectacled Mrs. S and Sarah posing as a bumbling assistant con their way into visitors passes, they sneak into an unauthorized ward and find Alex Ripley, who is actually drumroll please season 3 baddie Virginia Coady. Oh hey, blast from the Orphan Black past Shes initially very drugged up and unable to speak, but Sarah still calls her a genocidal bitch by way of greeting and gives her a slap across the face courtesy of Helena once she comes to. Virginias surprised when they ask about P. T., but after S hints they may be able to help her escape if she talks, she says an old friend had her locked away someone who shared her goal of controlling human genetics but didnt always get it right. RELATED VIDEO Orphan Black cast teases season 5. That old friend, it turns out, is Susan Duncan, and here we get a wealth of backstory on their early attempts at Neolution inspired human experimentation. Susan and P. T. recruited Virginia to their cause when she was young, and before they found Kendall Malone or started human cloning projects, someone else was their first human subject. He was P. T. Westmorelands original obsession, but too many mistakes were made on this child who possessed a unique genome. Their science wasnt as refined then, and he began growing tumors and suffering brain damage  Susan wanted to stop their experiments, but Virginia disagreed, and, in her words, they created a monster. Susan never forgave her for it, and they split assets in the friendscience divorce Virginia took Castor, Susan kept Leda, and P. T. kept them apart. But before she can tell them anything more, the doctor whom the real Elizabeth Perkins had supposedly been there to visit interrupts the intel party. Seeking a means of escape and knowing shell soon be drugged into submission again, Virginia attacks Sarah and steals her visitors pass which contains a key card, and when the orderlies and doctor restrain her, S and Sarah use the commotion as a means to sneak away. This definitely doesnt seem like the last well see of her. Cosima. They dont explicitly say it, but its pretty obvious the thing Sarah glimpsed in the woods during her little vacation on Evil Mystery Island is the now grown boy from Susan Duncan, Virginia Coady, and P. T. Westmorelands early days of human experiments and via Cosima, we get out first real albeit brief glimpse of him. After Charlotte and Aisha hear him and spot whats presumably one of his teeth in the woods while going to look for a missing pig from the Revival menagerie, Cosima confronts Mud asking for answers. She already suspects that whatever took a bite out of Daisy the Pig has something to do with Westmoreland. Were on the Island of Doctor Moreau here, she says. Whatever weird s is happening, its coming from the big house. All Mud will say is its not his faultprobably talking about the man in the woods, but possibly Westmoreland, and she warns Cosima to stay out of the woods. Later that night, Cosima follows Mud as she makes her way in the dark up toward Westmorelands house. Inside, P. T. is hooked up to some sort of IV treatment is that a dialysis machine Science people, drop some knowledge in the comments if you know, and Cosimas snooping brings her down into the basement, where she finds not just old medical equipment but photos of painful looking experimentsprocedures and, more disconcertingly, a cell with chains and blood on the walls. When Mud finds her down there, Cosima demands to know what they did to the man in the woods, but Mud just begs her to get out and frantically sends her out a side door. Still not deterred, Cosima stays close enough to the house to see Mud bring a blanket out to the man and try to talk to him, but he only appears for long enough to growl and bare his teeth before taking her gift and running back into the shadows. Recap continues on page 2.