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Boston Dynamics
Waltham, Massachusetts.
Headquarters
Waltham, Massachusetts.
Founded
1992
Employees
730+
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Strategic Snapshot
How this brand positions its humanoid systems.
Build reliable robots that deliver measurable value in real-world environments.
Unparalleled Robotic Mobility
Boston Dynamics designs robots with exceptional mobility, enabling dynamic movements across challenging terrains and industrial environments.
Advanced Automation Solutions
Their robots are tailored to optimize automation tasks, improving productivity in industries such as logistics and warehousing.
Precision and Durability
Expertly crafted robots exhibit high precision and durability, ensuring reliability in demanding operational scenarios.
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Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Partnership - IEEE Spectrum
Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.” Committing to working towards a general purpose robot may make this partnership sound like a every other commercial humanoid company right now, but that’s not at all that’s going on here: BD and TRI are talking about fundamental robotics research, focusing on hard problems, and (most importantly) sharing the results.
Boston Dynamics' next-gen humanoid robot will have Google DeepMind DNA | TechCrunch
Robotics company Boston Dynamics has struck a partnership with Google’s AI research lab to speed up the development of its next-generation humanoid robot Atlas — and make it act more human around people. The partnership, which was announced Monday during the Hyundai press conference at CES 2026, is centered on robotics research that will use Google DeepMind’s AI foundation models. Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot Atlas will be the first test case, according to Carolina Parada, senior director of robotics at Google DeepMind.
Atlas humanoid robots enter Hyundai factories for industrial use
Boston Dynamics has unveiled the new industry-ready Atlas, a humanoid designed as a practical industrial tool for warehouses and factories. Atlas can operate 24/7 in extreme temperatures, and uses AI to adapt to its environment. Production has already started. After a creepy launch video followed by wowing us with backflips and dance moves, Boston Dynamics has finally gotten down to business. The robotics company has just unveiled the production version of Atlas, a humanoid robot built for serious industrial work. With the first units arriving this year, Atlas has already landed its first job at a Hyundai facility, marking the robot's first deployment in a real-world industrial setting.
Atlas, meet Atlas | TechCrunch
# Atlas, meet Atlas Image Credits:Hyundai Motor Group Boston Dynamics showed off a prototype of its humanoid robot Atlas at CES 2026 and it walked along the stage showing off its moves. But the crowd also got a peek at the production version of Atlas, which is shown above. Zach Jackowski, vice president and general manager of Atlas at Boston Dynamics, and Aya Durbin, product lead of humanoid applications at Boston Dynamics, shared some of Atlas’ specs. For instance, this version has 56 degrees of freedom, mostly with fully rotational joints, and it has human-scale hands with tactile sensing in the fingers and palms for dexterous manipulation. [...] Atlas also has 360-degree cameras that can see in all directions so it understands when people are approaching, and it can lift up to 110 pounds. Atlas is also a water resistor in real industrial environments robots need to endure, and it can operate at its full capabilities, including strength between –4°F and 104°F, according to the executives. Stay tuned for more on Atlas! Oh, and it’s already in production, according to Jackowski, who added that the entire 2026 supply has already been allocated to Hyundai Motor Group and our “new AI partner.” Stay tuned for that news. Signage at the 2026 CES Unveiled event in Las Vegas ### From the Storyline: CES 2026: Follow live for the best, weirdest, most interesting tech as this robot and AI-heavy event wraps up [...] The first StrictlyVC of 2026 hits SF on April 30. Tickets are going fast. Register now. The first StrictlyVC of 2026 hits SF on April 30. Tickets are going fast. Register now. ### Topics Latest AI Amazon Apps Biotech & Health Climate Cloud Computing Commerce Crypto Enterprise EVs Fintech Fundraising Gadgets Gaming Google Government & Policy Hardware Instagram Layoffs Media & Entertainment Meta Microsoft Privacy Social Space Startups TikTok Transportation Venture ### More from TechCrunch Staff Events Startup Battlefield StrictlyVC Newsletters Podcasts Videos Partner Content TechCrunch Brand Studio Crunchboard Contact Us Posted: Kirsten Korosec # Atlas, meet Atlas Image Credits:Hyundai Motor Group
Hello, Electric Atlas - IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamics’ new electric humanoid has been simultaneously one of the worst and best kept secrets in [robotics](https://spectrum.ieee.org/topic/robotics/) over the last year or so. What I mean is that it seemed obvious, or even inevitable, that Boston Dynamics would take the expertise in humanoids that it developed with Atlas and combine that with its experience productizing a fully electric system like [Spot](https://robotsguide.com/robots/spot). But just because something *seems* inevitable doesn’t mean it actually *is* inevitable, and Boston Dynamics has done an admirable job of carrying on as normal while building a fully electric humanoid from scratch. And here it is: It’s all new, it’s all electric, and some of those movements make me slightly uncomfortable (we’ll get into that in a bit). The blog post accompanying the video is sparse on technical detail, but let’s go through the most interesting parts: > A decade ago, we were one of the only companies putting real R&D effort into[humanoid robots](). Now the landscape in the robotics industry is very different. In 2010, we took a look at all the humanoid robots then in existence. You could, I suppose, argue that Honda was putting real R&D effort into [ASIMO](https://robotsguide.com/robots/asimo) back then, but yeah, pretty much all those other humanoid robots came from research rather than industry. Now, it feels like we’re up to our eyeballs in commercial humanoids, but over the past couple of years, as [startups](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/startups) have appeared out of nowhere with [brand new humanoid robots](https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-robots), Boston Dynamics (to most outward appearances) was just keepin’ on with that R&D. Today’s announcement certainly changes that. > We are confident in our plan to not just create an impressive R&D project, but to deliver a valuable solution. This journey will start with Hyundai—in addition to investing in us, the[Hyundai]()team is building the next generation of automotive manufacturing capabilities, and it will serve as a perfect testing ground for new Atlas applications. Boston Dynamics This is all par for the course now, but it’s also not particularly meaningful without more information. “We will give our robots new capabilities through machine learning and AI” is what every humanoid robotics company (and most other [robotics companies](https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/robotics-companies)) are saying, but I’m not sure that we’re there yet, because there’s an “okay but how?” that needs to happen first. I’m not saying that it *won’t* happen, just pointing out that until it *does* happen, it *hasn’t* happened. > The humanoid form factor is a useful design for robots working in a world designed for people. However, that form factor doesn’t limit our vision of how a bipedal robot can move, what tools it needs to succeed, and how it can help people accomplish more. [Agility Robotics](https://agilityrobotics.com/) has a similar philosophy with [Digit](https://robotsguide.com/robots/digit), which has a mostly humanoid form factor to operate in human environments but also uses a non-human leg design because Agility believes that it works better. Atlas is a bit more human-like with its overall design, but there are some striking differences, including both range of motion and the head, both of which we’ll be talking more about.
Robot Videos: Atlas Humanoid, CES 2026 Bots , and More - IEEE Spectrum
[Mentee Robotics ] Personally, I think we should encourage humanoid robots to fall much more often, just so we can see whether they can get up again. [Agility Robotics ] > Achieving long-horizon, reliable clothing manipulation in the real world remains one of the most challenging problems in robotics. This live test demonstrates a strong step forward in embodied intelligence, vision-language-action systems, and real-world robotic autonomy. [HKU MMLab ] [...] > The video below demonstrates a MenteeBot learning, through mentoring, how to replace a battery in another MenteeBot. No teleoperation is used. [Mentee Robotics ] [...]
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