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Seems like this fits in well with Hyundai's autonomous car project Motional, which is also based in Boston.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21362322/hyundai-aptiv-mo...

Seems like this deal has more to do with automated manufacturing than it does with autonomous driving.

BD isn't really about precision robotics though, they are definitely more of environment estimation and motion planning company first, and legged robot company second.

My guess is they got acquired for some research they have done in dynamic trajectory planning, which can be useful in self driving cars.

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