Rubin's exit destabilized the disparate divisions, according to Business Insider, paving the way for the robotics divisions' consolidation within Alphabet's experimental X lab — and harmful cost-cutting. In 2015, as part of a restructuring plan laid out by Ruth Porat, Alphabet's chief financial officer, Boson Dynamics slimmed down its experimental efforts, while its engineers sought to identify a specific, real-world problem and business model under threat of reassignment. "The technology pieces we have are incredible," a member of Google's robots team told Business Insider at the time.