Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics coverage — Atlas, Spot, and Stretch, plus the company's shift from hydraulics to electric actuation.
Coverage (26 articles)
- Robotics Week in Review: Oct 23–Oct 30, 2026 — Humanoid platforms advanced from synchronized demos and records to production lines and enterprise AI tools this week. Tesla, Figure, AgiBot, and Google DeepMin
- Boston Dynamics Spot Repair Costs and Spot Care Plans — Boston Dynamics Spot base units start near $75,000 and configured systems reach $150,000–$300,000. Spot Care service plans cover accidental damage repairs with
- Robotics Week in Review: Oct 9–Oct 16, 2026 — AI training breakthroughs and record funding dominated robotics this week, as models like Gemini 4 Argon slashed humanoid learning times while NVIDIA and others
- Google DeepMind Cambridge Lab Expands Gemini Robotics Hardware — Google DeepMind is building a new robotics lab in the Cambridge area to house its growing hardware team. Aaron Saunders, who joined from Boston Dynamics in late
- Boston Dynamics Atlas GR3 Hand: 13-DOF Specs for Tool Use — Boston Dynamics unveiled the GR3 hand for its electric Atlas humanoid on October 1, 2026. The four-fingered design delivers 13 degrees of freedom with direct ac
- Robotics Week in Review: Oct 2–Oct 9, 2026 — Humanoid pilots expanded in factories while AI software leaps and maintenance realities surfaced. Leadership changes and regulatory scrutiny rounded out a week
- Rohit Prasad Appointed Boston Dynamics CEO for Atlas Push — Boston Dynamics named Rohit Prasad, former Amazon Alexa and AGI leader, as CEO effective October 7, 2026. He replaces interim chief Amanda McMaster following Ro
- Hello Robot Stretch Wins $3M NIH Grant for Elder Care Dementia Support — Hello Robot received a nearly $3 million NIH grant to advance its Stretch mobile manipulator for older adults with mild cognitive impairment or early Alzheimer’
- Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics 2 Scales via Software Partnerships — Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, 2026, delivering vision-language-action models for whole-body humanoid control, dexterity, and multi-robo
- Robotics Week in Review: Sep 25–Oct 2, 2026 — Humanoid robots advanced toward real warehouse and factory roles while software platforms and record industrial deployments underscored automation's acceleratin
- Boston Dynamics Atlas Trains at Hyundai Metaplant RMAC Center — Boston Dynamics opened the RMAC training center inside Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America near Savannah, Georgia, on September 21, 2026. Atlas humanoids are
- 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
- Robotics Week in Review: Sep 11–Sep 18, 2026 — Humanoid hardware upgrades, factory-scale deployment plans, and new service infrastructure dominated robotics news this week. Companies like Toyota, Unitree, Ag
- Boston Dynamics Atlas Actuator Costs Battery Life TCO 2026 — Boston Dynamics' electric Atlas humanoid delivers 4-hour typical battery runtime and autonomous swaps in under 3 minutes. Modular Hyundai Mobis actuators suppor
- ICE Forecasts $1-2M Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Buy for Public Safety — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans a sole-source purchase of Boston Dynamics Spot quadrupeds worth $1-2 million. The robots would handle remote insp
- Robotics Week in Review: Aug 21–Aug 28, 2026 — Humanoid robots shattered performance records while AI foundation models and massive datasets accelerated real-world deployment. Funding rounds, record shipment
- 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
- 1X NEO Ready for Home 2026? New Yorker Exposes Humanoid Risks — The New Yorker’s June 2026 probe into 1X NEO reveals tendon actuators, teleoperation crutches, and fall risks that undermine 10k+ pre-orders at $20k. As rivals
- 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
- Agility Robotics $2.5B SPAC to AGLT: Digit Ramps Amid Tesla Figure Rivalry — Agility Robotics' June 2026 SPAC merger with Churchill Capital XI at $2.5B valuation positions AGLT as the first U.S. pure-play humanoid public listing, acceler
- South Korea $1T AI Bet Powers Boston Dynamics Atlas 2028 Ramp — South Korea commits $1T to DRAM fabs, AI data centers, and humanoid robots, designating physical AI a national strategic industry. Hyundai and Boston Dynamics t
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