They are buying the robot and its patents and not the designers. People can not be bought out. They may decide to stay or leave and they can start their own companies if they are very talented and organized so there.
Every other position can be contracted or hired if a company wants to market the product and the buyers with that much cash already have those employees.
If a company is buying another to design a new robot or gadget, it is a speculative venture at a high cost because the outcome will be a decades away and slower than the startups and no guarantee to have the right stuff to be marketable in future.
You’re wrong. There have been way more than 200 people work on Sport and 10 years of development including over 200 million spent. Maybe not billions spent but most of that would be wast anyways. On Titan
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