Boston Dynamics unveiled a production-ready version of its humanoid robot Atlas at the Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, marking the company’s official entry into the rapidly growing humanoid robotics market.
Along with the launch, the company announced a partnership with Google DeepMind to bring more advanced cognitive capabilities to its humanoids as well as a collaboration with Hyundai Mobis to build a component supply chain for Atlas.
The event marked the first public demonstration of Boston Dynamics’ finished Atlas product.
The fully electric robot was unveiled during Hyundai’s global CES media day presentation, which also featured a dance performance by a group of the company’s four-legged Spot robots.
At the performance, Atlas walked around the stage and waved to the crowd.
Designed as an enterprise grade humanoid robot that can perform industrial tasks, Atlas is designed to learn rapidly and adapt to changing environments, capable of working autonomously with minimal human intervention.
Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Plater said in a Press release That robots will “revolutionize” industries, and lead to steps towards large-scale robotic deployment.
“This is the best robot we’ve ever built,” he said. “This is the first step toward a long-term goal we’ve dreamed of since childhood – useful robots that can come into our homes and help make our lives safer, more productive, and more fulfilling.”
Atlas production is scheduled to begin immediately, with early customers including Google DeepMind and Hyundai’s Robotics MetaPlant Application Center.
Boston Dynamics’ majority shareholder Hyundai Motor Group is also preparing to deploy thousands of Boston Dynamics robots in its own manufacturing facilities.
Additional customers are expected to be announced in early 2027.
Along with the launch is also the newly announced partnership with Google DeepMind, a collaboration aimed at bringing AI capabilities to Boston Dynamics’ humanoids.
Specifically, the partners will integrate Gemini Robotics AI Foundation models into Atlas to enhance its ability to understand, reason, and interact with its surrounding environment.
“We are building the world’s most capable humanoid, and we knew we needed a partner that could help us establish new types of visual-language-action models for these complex robots,” Alberto Rodriguez, Atlas’ director of robot behavior at Boston Dynamics, said in the release. “Nobody in the world is better suited than DeepMind to build reliable, scalable models that can be deployed securely and efficiently across a wide variety of tasks and industries.”
Finally, Boston Dynamics announced that Hyundai will supply actuators for Mobis Atlas, and the two organizations will work together to create a “highly reliable” component supply chain to support the development and production of actuators.
The announcement comes on the heels of Hyundai’s $26 billion investment In its US operations, that includes plans to build a new robotics factory capable of producing 30,000 robots per year.
