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Those competitors include Toyota, which has partnered with Agility to deploy humanoid bots to support manufacturing at its largest plant outside of Japan, and Tesla, which is developing its own Optimus humanoid robot with plans to produce one million of them a year.

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Post a Comment You must be signed in to leave a comment. To sign in or create an account, enter your email address and we'll send you a one-click sign-in link. Last year, Hyundai promised to make a $21 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, a capital layout that would be used in part to purchase " tens of thousands of robots " from Boston Dynamics.

But according to a new report from Semafor, the robot maker is still only making about four of its Atlas humanoid robots per month. At that rate, it would take more than 200 years to hit the 10,000 robot goal.

A boost to production volume appears to be on the horizon though, as Boston Dynamics is reportedly planning to open a new manufacturing facility in the coming months. A spokesperson for the company told the publication that the upcoming factory will give it the ability to mass manufacture Atlas robots, which are in the process of switching from the prototype to the production version.