Boston Dynamics

Hyundai-owned pioneer behind Atlas and Spot, now training electric Atlas for Hyundai's US factories

Division of Hyundai Motor Group · Pilot · Humanoid OEM · Waltham, Massachusetts, United States · Founded 1992 · bostondynamics.com

Part of Hyundai Motor Group.

Reported Funding: Hyundai acquired ~80% in a 2020/21 deal reported at $880M (humanoid.observer); not listed as a funding round. Korea Herald/HMG article dates are access dates.

Profile

MIT spinout and the best-known name in legged robotics, majority-owned by Hyundai Motor Group since 2021. Electric Atlas is training at Hyundai's Georgia Metaplant ahead of planned parts-sequencing work from 2028, and Hyundai has said it plans to deploy more than 25,000 Atlas units. Former Amazon AGI chief Rohit Prasad became CEO in Oct 2026.

People

• RP
  Rohit Prasad

  Chief Executive Officer

  Named CEO on October 6, 2026.

  @RohitPrasadAIRole confirmed in their X bio

Source: Boston Dynamics appoints Rohit Prasad as Chief Executive Officer · As of Oct 8, 2026. X handles are shown only when we could confirm they belong to the person.

Flagship robots

• Atlas (electric) Humanoid
  Training/validation at Hyundai's Robotics Metaplant Application Center, Georgia
• Spot Quadruped
  Commercial quadruped
• Stretch Mobile manipulator
  Truck-unloading robot

Market & financials

Competitors

Companies with overlapping products. Direct = same customers and same job; Adjacent = overlapping technology or market, different focus.

• Figure AI

  Direct competitor

  USHumanoid startup

  Both are building humanoids for factory and logistics customers: Figure AI builds general-purpose humanoids run by its own Helix AI model, while Boston Dynamics is training the electric Atlas for Hyundai's factories and also sells Spot and Stretch.

  Sources (2)

  • Boston Dynamics (company website)
  • Figure AI (company website)

• NEURA Robotics

  Direct competitor

  DEHumanoid startup

  Both are building humanoids for factory and logistics customers: NEURA Robotics makes cognitive cobots and the 4NE1 humanoid, while Boston Dynamics is training the electric Atlas for Hyundai's factories and also sells Spot and Stretch.

  Sources (2)

  • Boston Dynamics (company website)
  • NEURA Robotics (company website)

• Apptronik

  Direct competitor

  USHumanoid startup

  Both are building humanoids for factory and logistics customers: Apptronik builds the Apollo humanoid, now in pilots with Mercedes-Benz and GXO, while Boston Dynamics is training the electric Atlas for Hyundai's factories and also sells Spot and Stretch.

  Sources (2)

  • Boston Dynamics (company website)
  • Apptronik (company website)

Recent news

• Oct 6, 2026 — Rohit Prasad, ex-Amazon head scientist for Alexa/AGI, named CEO The Robot Report
• Oct 1, 2026 — New 4-finger, 13-DOF Atlas hand built for RL in simulation Boston Dynamics

Suppliers

• NVIDIA — Jetson Thor onboard computer; Isaac Sim, GR00T foundation models
• Hyundai Mobis — Custom electric actuators for Atlas
• LG Energy Solution — Cylindrical cells for robots

Sources

• Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon executive Rohit Prasad new CEO (The Robot Report) (Oct 6, 2026)
• Robot hands for modern AI and real work (Boston Dynamics) (Oct 1, 2026)
• Hyundai Motor Group to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots across factories (Korea Herald) (Oct 8, 2026)
• Inside the Robotics Race: Atlas Learns the Real World (Hyundai Motor Group) (Oct 8, 2026)
• Who is paying for humanoids: 69 funding rounds (humanoid.observer) (Sep 6, 2026)

Confidence: medium.

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