American robotics company Boston Dynamics said it will start producing the Atlas humanoid robot immediately, first deployment in Hyundai factories.

Boston Dynamics, the 32-year-old company famed for its amusing or creepy (depending on your interpretation) advanced robots including Atlas (humanoid) and Spot (a dog-like quadruped) featured in viral videos over the years showing off their acrobatic ...

Jackowski claims Boston Dynamics and Hyundai are putting together, the “most complete dataset in the world to train humanoid skills in manufacturing,” and that the car side of the company will soon be both using and manufacturing these things in “a new robotics factory capable of producing 30,000 Atlas robots a year.”

Google and Boston Dynamics have partnered to enhance humanoid robots, specifically utilizing the Atlas model alongside Google DeepMind's Gemini AI. This collaboration aims to transform these robots from mere performances to capable industrial tools.

Boston Dynamics probably has the most show-offy robots on the planet right now, and the company's latest video shows that its robodog, Spot, is no exception. Spoiler alert: he nails a septuple back flip that is wildly impressive. But despite all of the ...