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.