Boston Dynamics
USA · Private
Pioneer in dynamic robotics, now a Hyundai Motor Group subsidiary. Famous for legged robots Spot and Atlas, with a pivot to fully electric actuation for the next-generation Atlas humanoid.
- Country
- USA
- Founded
- 1992
- Ticker
- Private
- Total funding
- Acquired by Hyundai (2020, $1.1B)
- Latest round
- Hyundai Motor Group acquisition (88% stake, 2020)
Products
- Spot
- Atlas (Electric)
- Stretch
Robot reference
- Spot Quadruped — Quadruped
- Atlas (Electric Humanoid) — Humanoid
Boston Dynamics coverage
- Boston Dynamics Electric Atlas Parkour Demos Advance 2026 Capabilities — Boston Dynamics released updated demonstration footage of its all-electric Atlas humanoid performing complex parkour, high-speed runs, backflips, and push recov
- Tesla Optimus Gen 3 Hand Patents Expose Forearm Actuator Bottlenecks — April 2026 international patents detail Tesla Optimus Gen 3's 25 linear actuators per forearm driving a 22-DoF tendon hand, shifting from Gen 2's 11 DoF. Boston
- NEURA Robotics Lands Record $1.4B Series C for Cognitive Humanoids — Germany's NEURA Robotics secures up to $1.4 billion in Series C funding from Tether, NVIDIA, Amazon, Qualcomm and others to scale cognitive humanoid deployments
- Google DeepMind Launches Gemini Robotics ER 2 Embodied Reasoning Model — Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics ER 2 on July 30, 2026. The embodied reasoning model enables robots to handle real-time spatial reasoning, multi-step pl
- FCC Bans New Chinese Humanoid and Quadruped Robot Imports — On July 28, 2026, the US FCC banned imports of new Chinese-made humanoid and quadruped robots over national security concerns including data risks and cyberatta
- Samsung Forms RX Robotics Division Under CEO for Humanoid Push — Samsung Electronics launched the RX Robotics division on July 21, 2026, reporting directly to DX CEO TM Roh. Led by ex-Hyundai executive Lee Dongkun, it will ac
- Figure 02 at BMW Spartanburg: 30,000+ Vehicles, 1,250 Runtime Hours — Figure AI's Figure 02 humanoid completed an 11-month production pilot at BMW Spartanburg, handling 90,000+ sheet metal parts and contributing to over 30,000 BMW
- Tesollo IPO: DG-5F Hands Scale Humanoid Dexterity Supply Chain — South Korea's Tesollo advances its 2027 IPO after Series B funding from POSCO and HL Mando, scaling DG-5F 20-DoF robotic hands to solve humanoid dexterity bottl
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