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… - source: bostondynamics.com
Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai Metaplant - 2026-09-21 - Facility Opening - RMAC operates inside Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America near Savannah, Georgia and is scheduled to move into a building about ten times larger in 2027. The training programme starts with parts logistics and sequencing, with… - source: bostondynamics.com
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, with cumulative losses from 2021 through 2025 approaching KRW 1.7 trillion. Hyundai plans to begin deploying Atlas at its Georgia vehicle plant in 2028. Hyundai targets a… - source: au.marketscreener.com
Atlas presents match ball during FIFA World Cup halftime demonstration - 2026-07-05 - Demonstration - The production Atlas appearance formed part of Hyundai’s Next Starts Now campaign during the Norway–Brazil round-of-16 match. The team trained whole-body behaviours using reinforcement learning and tested Atlas on outdoor turf… - source: bostondynamics.com
Boston Dynamics evaluates Korean suppliers for Atlas production - 2026-06-29 - Market Signal - Around 10 Boston Dynamics engineers evaluated more than 10 Korean automotive-parts factories over nearly a month. Potential components included actuators, grippers, arm and leg modules, lightweight aluminium structures and lidar.… - source: v.daum.net
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… - source: bostondynamics.com
Boston Dynamics sees C-suite departures amid pressure to accelerate Atlas production - 2026-05-01 - Org Change - Robert Playter retired as CEO in February; the COO and chief strategy officer also departed, while CTO Aaron Saunders joined Google DeepMind. Former employees put Atlas output at roughly four robots per month as the company prepared… - source: semafor.com
Boston Dynamics Atlas slated for Kia Georgia deployment in 2029 - 2026-04-09 - Market Signal - Kia identified 16 core manufacturing processes for phased robotics work focused on safety, productivity and quality. The roadmap pairs factory demand and data collection with investment in Physical AI infrastructure and talent.… - source: worldwide.kia.com
ZEST paper transfers athletic skills to Boston Dynamics Atlas - 2026-01-30 - Research Publication - ZEST trains motion-imitation policies entirely in simulation with moderate domain randomization. Physical electric Atlas trials include army crawling, breakdancing and video-derived scene interactions such as box climbing.… - source: arxiv.org
Boston Dynamics selects Hyundai Mobis for Atlas actuator supply - 2026-01-07 - Partnership - Boston Dynamics became Hyundai Mobis’s first official robotics-sector customer. The agreement covers actuator development and supply for next-generation Atlas, with future manufacturing plans. The partners cited automotive… - source: prnewswire.com
Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind partner to bring Gemini Robotics to Atlas - 2026-01-05 - Partnership - Joint research was planned at both companies, using a fleet of new Atlas robots. The work combines Gemini Robotics foundation models with visual-language-action approaches for humanoid behaviour. Initial applications target… - source: bostondynamics.com
Boston Dynamics announces product version of Atlas® robot - 2026-01-05 - Product Launch - The 2026 fleets were committed to Hyundai’s RMAC and Google DeepMind, with additional customers planned for early 2027. Atlas supports autonomous operation, teleoperation and tablet steering; the announced hardware has 56… - source: bostondynamics.com
Boston Dynamics and TRI demonstrate Atlas whole-body manipulation - 2025-08-20 - Demonstration - A continuous Spot Workshop demonstration shows full Atlas folding and shelving robot legs, opening a bin for face plates and clearing loose components. The 450-million-parameter diffusion-transformer policy combines images, joint… - source: bostondynamics.com
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. - source: bostondynamics.com
Boston Dynamics demonstrates DextrAH-RGB grasp policies on Atlas test stand - 2025-04-25 - Demonstration - The upper-body Atlas manipulation test stand used stereo RGB camera input to guide grasps with its three-fingered grippers. Training combined a reinforcement-learning teacher with an RGB student policy distilled in simulation.… - source: developer.nvidia.com
Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute Partner to Advance Humanoid Robots Through Reinforcement Learning - 2025-02-05 - Partnership - The teams aim to improve transfer of learned mobility policies from simulation to physical hardware. Planned manipulation work combines walking with interaction involving fixtures such as doors and levers. Full-body contact… - source: bostondynamics.com
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute announce humanoid robotics partnership - 2024-10-16 - Partnership - Scott Kuindersma of Boston Dynamics and Russ Tedrake of TRI co-lead the Boston-based research team. Atlas hardware and teleoperation will collect whole-body, bimanual manipulation data for training TRI Large Behavior Models.… - source: pressroom.toyota.com
Boston Dynamics introduces all-electric Atlas - 2024-04-17 - Product Launch - The electric design was intended to offer greater strength and range of motion than previous Atlas generations. Boston Dynamics planned to work with a small group of customers, beginning with Hyundai, to test and iterate… - source: bostondynamics.com