Robotics Summit panel explores the state of humanoid robot design
“We brought it to CES this January for a whole week, just demoing, and next year, we’re going back,” Rodriguez added. “This year, we’re going back to the factory to show a more end-to-end demonstration of Atlas — a full learning pipeline, not just handling...
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- Humanoid robots are moving from laboratory demos into commercial reality.
- Forbes reported on June 19 that a wave of companies—including 1X Technologies, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Tesla, and Samsung—are racing to ship robots that can operate in human environments, with 1X’s Neo already demonstrating chores such as laundry folding and dish‑unloading and slated for home delivery later this year.
- The same outlet noted that while the market remains expensive and enterprise‑focused, models like Unitree’s G1 ($16,000) and 1X’s Neo Gamma (pre‑orders at $20,000 or $499 per month) are now purchasable online, and dozens of thousands of units are being shipped to factories.
- Boston Dynamics confirmed at a Robotics Summit that Atlas will be produced at a scale of up to 30,000 units per year by 2028 after securing enough customers, including Hyundai, for a planned deployment of roughly 25,000 robots in factories.
- Agility Robotics’ Digit is already in service with Amazon, GXO and other logistics firms, and Genesis AI unveiled a non‑humanoid, wheeled robot called Eno, arguing that functional designs may outpace the humanoid trend.
“We brought it to CES this January for a whole week, just demoing, and next year, we’re going back,” Rodriguez added. “This year, we’re going back to the factory to show a more end-to-end demonstration of Atlas — a full learning pipeline, not just handling the behavior, but handling the entire workflow, connecting to the factory, and handling exceptions.”
He also noted that in Boston Dynamics’ journey to mass-production scale, the company has now secured enough customers (including Hyundai) that it has committed to deploy on the order of 25,000 humanoids in factories. Boston Dynamics has made an additional commitment to ramp up production capacity to 30,000 Atlas robots per year by 2028. Home
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“We’ve really been expanding the commercial side and learning from that to figure out — what do we need to close the remaining gaps that allow us to scale?” said Velagapudi. “That’s a couple of different things: It’s discoveries around what we needed out of the safety case, which has been a huge piece of all of this with an incredibly powerful, dynamically stable robot. How can we move around these facilities and be able to work in closer proximity or without guarding around humans?”
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