Atlas

Source-backed capabilities

• Capability areas: Whole-body control
• Workflows: Humanoid workplace tasks, Industrial humanoid automation
• Operating environments: Factory floor
• Target markets: Industrial research programs, advanced manufacturing teams and technology demonstration partners.
• Control modes: Autonomous, Teleoperation, And Tablet Steering Control Modes
• Deployment model: Transitioning from a long-running research platform to a commercial industrial product.
• Multi-terrain locomotion

  Research demonstration - 2022-03-01 - The paper presents a humanoid navigation planner that uses traversability assessment over 2.5D height maps for rough terrain.

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• Obstacle-course traversal

  Research demonstration - 2022-03-01 - Atlas rough-terrain paper demonstrates traversability-aware humanoid path planning

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• Material handling

  Pilot - Boston Dynamics documents Atlas field testing at Hyundai for real-world manufacturing sequencing and material-handling tasks under human supervision; the page describes a first customer pilot rather than broad deployment.

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• Order and component sorting

  Pilot - Boston Dynamics documents Atlas field testing at Hyundai for real-world manufacturing sequencing and material-handling tasks under human supervision; the page describes a first customer pilot rather than broad deployment.

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• Atlas Hyundai Kia Target 25000 Units 20260921

  Target of 25,000 Atlas units across Hyundai and Kia plants - 2026-09-21 - Hyundai Motor Group - Hyundai and Kia global automotive plants - Hyundai Motor Group plans to expand Atlas across Hyundai and Kia plants toward 25,000 units over the next few years.

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• Atlas Product Version Manufacturing Start

  product-version manufacturing began January 5, 2026 - 2026-01-05 - Boston Dynamics said it would begin manufacturing the product version of Atlas immediately after its January 5, 2026 unveiling.

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• Atlas 2026 Deployment Book Status

  all 2026 Atlas deployments fully committed - 2026-01-05 - Boston Dynamics reported that all Atlas deployments for 2026 were fully committed.

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• Target Annual Capacity Robots

  30,000 robots/year - 2026-01-05 - Hyundai Motor Group - automotive manufacturing - Hyundai Motor Group said it aims to establish a scalable production system capable of manufacturing 30,000 robot units annually by 2028 for Atlas deployment across industrial sites.

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• Atlas Rmac Training Operational 20260921

  Atlas training programme operational at RMAC - 2026-09-21 - Hyundai Motor Group - automotive manufacturing training and validation - Atlas robots are training at the operational Robotics Metaplant Application Center inside Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America on automotive parts logistics and sequencing.

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• Atlas Named Scheduled Fleet Recipients Min

  at least 2 named scheduled fleet recipients - 2026-01-05 - Hyundai Robotics Metaplant Application Center; Google DeepMind - industrial deployment and AI model development - Boston Dynamics named Hyundai RMAC and Google DeepMind as recipients of Atlas fleets scheduled to ship during 2026.

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Exact-product configurations are shown without inferring supply, purchase, customer status, standard fit, deployment or partnership.

• Xsens MVN motion-capture system

  Prototype - Trained With - Mixed - Boston Dynamics used Xsens MVN-captured human-motion data in an Atlas humanoid training pipeline documented by Xsens.

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Supply / Components

• Atlas

  Atlas Humanoid Actuators - Actuation - Hyundai Mobis - Hyundai Mobis will develop and supply actuators for Boston Dynamics’ next-generation Atlas humanoid - source: mobis.com

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• ZEST paper transfers athletic skills to Boston Dynamics Atlas

  2026-01-30 - Research Publication - ZEST learns dynamic multi-contact humanoid skills from motion capture and video without contact labels or extensive reward shaping. The paper reports deployment on Boston Dynamics Atlas for behaviors including crawling, dance-like motions, and scene-interaction skills such as box climbing. The work gives Atlas a benchmark for zero-shot athletic skill transfer across heterogeneous movement data and robot embodiments.

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• Atlas rough-terrain paper demonstrates traversability-aware humanoid path planning

  2022-03-01 - Research Publication - The paper presents a humanoid navigation planner that uses traversability assessment over 2.5D height maps for rough terrain. The framework combines graph search, trajectory optimization, footstep planning, and balance control, with demonstration on a DRC Boston Dynamics Atlas robot. The work gives Atlas a benchmark for humanoid path planning over rough terrain beyond flat-floor locomotion demos.

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Media library

• Atlas customer-pilot platform

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• Atlas industrial work context

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Official Boston Dynamics product reference and exact field-test media for the electric Atlas industrial humanoid.

• Atlas product and specifications reference

  WEB · Electric Atlas · Boston Dynamics

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• Boston Dynamics details Atlas GR3 hand and sim-to-real manipulation tests

  2026-10-01 - Demonstration - GR3 has 13 directly actuated degrees of freedom, compared with seven on the previous GR2 hand; its opposable thumb has four and each other finger has three. Dense pressure-sensitive tactile sensors cover the fingertips and palm, complementing actuator proprioception and backdrivable joints. Initial dynamic-task policies were trained with domain randomization and transferred to hardware using high-rate actuator proprioception for feedback.

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• Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai Metaplant

  2026-09-21 - Facility Opening - Atlas robots are training inside the manufacturing environment on parts logistics and sequencing ahead of assembly. The first RMAC phase is operational and is scheduled to move into a building approximately ten times larger in 2027. Hyundai plans to expand Atlas across Hyundai and Kia plants toward 25,000 units over the next few years and establish U.S. capacity for 30,000 robots annually.

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• Boston Dynamics IPO unlikely in 2027 as Atlas scale-up continues

  2026-09-14 - Market Signal - Boston Dynamics recorded a KRW 528.4 billion loss in 2025, while cumulative losses from 2021 through 2025 reached nearly KRW 1.7 trillion. Atlas has not yet been deployed at scale; Hyundai plans to begin deployment at its Georgia vehicle plant in 2028. Hyundai’s existing target is manufacturing capacity of 30,000 robots annually by 2028, which remains a forward-looking capacity goal rather than achieved output.

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• Atlas presents match ball during FIFA World Cup halftime demonstration

  2026-07-05 - Demonstration - Atlas carried the ceremonial match ball to the referee and performed goal celebrations during the July 5 halftime activation. The team trained whole-body behaviors with reinforcement learning and tested the robot on outdoor turf under stadium-like lighting, noise and communications conditions.

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• Boston Dynamics evaluates Korean suppliers for Atlas production

  2026-06-29 - Market Signal - Around 10 Boston Dynamics engineers reportedly evaluated more than 10 Korean automotive-parts factories over nearly a month. Named candidates included Hyundai Mobis, Hwashin Precision and SOS Lab across actuators, grippers, limb modules, lightweight aluminium structures and lidar. The companies were being evaluated for production capability and engineering expertise; the report did not identify final supplier awards.

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• Atlas performs Ghost Rabona football move using reinforcement learning

  2026-06-04 - Demonstration - Boston Dynamics trained Atlas to perform the previously unseen Ghost Rabona using optical motion capture of human movement and reinforcement learning. The move combines a fake step-over, crossed-leg rabona kick, takeoff and landing, and balance recovery, requiring whole-body coordination and dynamic control. Atlas learned the policy through thousands of parallel simulations on cloud GPUs before the learned skill was deployed to hardware, illustrating transfer from simulation to physical motion.

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• Boston Dynamics sees C-suite departures amid pressure to accelerate Atlas production

  2026-05-01 - Org Change - Semafor reported a recent C-suite exodus at Boston Dynamics, including the CEO, COO, chief strategy officer and CTO. Former employees told Semafor the departures came amid board pressure over Boston Dynamics' narrowing lead against humanoid competitors. Former employees also said Boston Dynamics was producing roughly four Atlas humanoid robots per month while preparing to open a new manufacturing facility.

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• Kia and Boston Dynamics advance Atlas humanoid deployment in manufacturing

  2026-04-10 - Partnership - Kia and Boston Dynamics outlined plans to bring Atlas humanoid robots into automotive manufacturing workflows. The companies positioned Atlas as part of a broader push to integrate advanced robotics into production environments. The announcement describes forward-looking deployment plans rather than confirmed live industrial operations.

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• Hyundai Mobis forms strategic collaboration framework with Boston Dynamics

  2026-01-08 - Partnership - Hyundai Mobis and Boston Dynamics announced a strategic collaboration framework on humanoid components. The partnership references actuator and component collaboration aimed at scaling future deployment. Boston Dynamics builds high-performance mobile robots including Spot for industrial and field inspection, Stretch for warehouse trailer unloading, and Atlas for advanced humanoid mobility.

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• Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind partner to bring Gemini Robotics to Atlas

  2026-01-05 - Partnership - The companies announced the partnership at CES 2026 in Las Vegas and said joint research would begin in 2026. The work will combine Gemini Robotics foundation models with a fleet of new Atlas robots, with visual-language-action models identified as a focus. The programme targets industrial humanoid tasks and is expected to begin with automotive manufacturing applications.

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• Boston Dynamics announces product version of Atlas® robot

  2026-01-05 - Product Launch - Third-generation platform, following earlier models. Signals intent to scale deployments in industrial environments. Capabilities include enhanced strength and adaptability for diverse tasks.

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• Boston Dynamics, LG Innotek co-develop vision system for Atlas humanoid

  2025-05-12 - Partnership - The research teams plan to combine sensing components to help robots perceive their surroundings in darkness, low visibility and poor weather. The planned Atlas integration will draw on LG Innotek's mobile-camera technology.

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• Boston Dynamics demonstrates DextrAH-RGB grasp policies on Atlas test stand

  2025-04-28 - Demonstration - The Atlas manipulation test stand practised a range of grasps using reinforcement-learning policies trained with NVIDIA DextrAH-RGB. The demonstration paired stereo-RGB perception with dexterous grasp control on Atlas hardware.

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• Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute Partner to Advance Humanoid Robots Through Reinforcement Learning

  2025-02-05 - Partnership - The partnership focuses on using reinforcement learning to build dynamic and generalizable capabilities on the Atlas robot. Objectives include developing sim-to-real mobility, improving whole-body loco-manipulation, and exploring full-body contact strategies. This collaboration builds upon previous joint development work on Spot’s Reinforcement Learning Researcher Kit.

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• Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute announce humanoid robotics partnership

  2024-10-16 - Partnership - The research partnership aims to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot . Shows CES Chicago Detroit Los Angeles New York SEMA Global Shows What’s New What’s New for 2027 What’s New for 2026 What’s New for 2025 Press Kits Images & Videos Pricing Corporate Latest News Sales & Financial Manufacturing in the U.S. Boston Dynamics announced a robotics update reported at pressroom.toyota.com.

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• Boston Dynamics and TRI use large behavior models for Atlas manipulation

  2024-10-16 - Capability - Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously It contains the domain, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session)

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• Hyundai, Boston Dynamics show Atlas industrial humanoid; LG shows CLOiD home robot

  2021-08-23 - Product Launch - What does it take for a robot to run, flip, vault, and leap like an athlete?. Perception for Parkour Robot perception algorithms are used to convert data from sensors like cameras and lidar into something useful for decision making and planning physical actions.

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Profile notes

• Electric Atlas starts a new industrial record

  reviewed 2026-07-17 - Hydraulic Atlas made Boston Dynamics famous for dynamic humanoid research, but it was never the factory product now moving toward deployment. Boston Dynamics retired that platform before introducing the all-electric Atlas for industrial work. The research legacy carried forward, while the hardware, product purpose and deployment record changed. Hyundai factory work belongs to electric Atlas; the earlier demonstrations explain where the technology came from, not how the current product is performing in industry.

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Market context

Atlas is Boston Dynamics' electric humanoid robot designed for industrial material handling and autonomous task execution in factory environments.

• Target environment: Factory floors, industrial research sites and structured workplace environments.
• Workflow context: Material handling, heavy object manipulation and whole-body industrial tasks requiring dynamic mobility and coordination.
• Customer context: Industrial research programs, advanced manufacturing teams and technology demonstration partners.
• Deployment model: Transitioning from a long-running research platform to a commercial industrial product.
• Commercial maturity: Active platform with real factory pilot deployments. The shift from hydraulic to electric hardware signals commercial intent.
• Adoption constraints: Still in early commercial deployment. The main constraint is proving consistent operation across unstructured factory conditions.
• Market position: One of the most recognized humanoid platforms globally. Serves as a reference point for both advanced locomotion and commercial humanoid ambition.
• Adjacent products: Apollo, Digit, Spot

Tags

• Peer Group: Bipedal industrial humanoid, Walking bipedal humanoid robot, Humanoid robot platform, Full-size bipedal humanoid robot
• Workflow: Humanoid workplace tasks, Industrial humanoid automation
• Capability: Whole-body control
• Deployment Environment: Factory floor
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform

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