The Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank sells a cute, humanoid robot named Pepper with blinking eyes and the ability to read human emotion.

Soon it may have mechanical creatures of a less adorable variety within its stable of robots.

On Thursday, SoftBank agreed to acquire Boston Dynamics, a manufacturer of animal-like robots, from Google’s parent company, Alphabet, for an undisclosed sum. SoftBank also agreed to acquire Schaft, a secretive Japanese bipedal robotics company, also owned by Alphabet.

“Today, there are many issues we still cannot solve by ourselves with human capabilities. Smart robotics are going to be a key driver of the next stage of the information revolution,” said Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive of SoftBank.

The deal is an unwinding of some of Google’s robotics investments. In 2013, Google began snapping up robotics companies to create a robot unit under Andy Rubin, the man who built Google’s Android smartphone software into the dominant operating system of the mobile era. Boston Dynamics was the highest-profile company acquired by Google during that buying spree.