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What changed, and what is the evidence.
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Atlas lets you build out large 3D environments starting from a single input image. You can then define a camera path through the world and generate a video along it. Here’s how the 3D structure, camera path and final flythrough connect.… |
Samsung is testing a humanoid designed for 24/7 operations. The bipedal robot is being trained for navigation and material handling at Samsung’s R&D center in Seoul, with staff and partners monitoring its operation in shifts. (see a bit in… |
Hyundai is preparing to deploy 25,000 Atlas humanoids. Commitments like this show where robotics is heading faster than any market report. https://t.co/gEibvZNbYh |
日本AIセンターHD、カゴ車搬送ロボット公開-https://t.co/Uyj0xkrXNR 日本AIセンターホールディングスは、カゴ車搬送ロボット「Noruno Atlas」を公開。既存のカゴ車や棚に自動で連結して自律搬送し、専用台車への置き換えを抑えながら倉庫・工場の作業自動化を目指す。 https://t.co/kiIzoWX2X0 |
Atlas-950 SuperPoD Delivery have already started & new data centers are been built to accommodate them. HW Cloud is building its 1st "3D AIDC" in Horinger. Expected to install 100k+ SuperCluster of 950 SuperPoDs. China Telecom is building… |
Robotics startups raised a record $18.6 billion in one quarter this year, and almost all of it is going to factories and warehouses. @dynamicreatures is going the other way. The team left Boston Dynamics to build character robots for theme… |
There are more companies selling robot intelligence right now than companies selling robots. That showed up this year as a pattern I kept noticing. In this case all these research groups with published on the same robot from @DexmateAI.… |
Atlas beta access has started rolling out! Here’s a look at how you can control camera paths with pixel-perfect precision. https://t.co/lvmSp8aU4R |
Step 5 Preview got released, which makes me sad, since I can no longer use it for free on OpenCode. It was actually my go to model for a while. Good news for its compute as Ascend, MetaX & Biren all announced Day 0 support. Especially… |
Boston Dynamics says it takes about a day to build an Atlas. Its target for 2027: about an hour. Inside its prototype shop, precision machining, assembly, testing and repair all happen under one roof. Some newly machined parts go into… |
Boston Dynamics just showed the shop floor where it builds Atlas. Machining, assembly, and repairs all happen under one roof. When suppliers can’t meet the required tolerances, they make critical parts in-house. Engineers can tweak a… |
『Atlasの製造現場」 https://t.co/KKJKCn6jyX カスタム部品を社内で製作、ロボットの組立や修理を一つの拠点で行い効率化。 複雑な設計を実機へと大規模に展開する製造スピードを実現。 #humanoidrobot #PhysicalAI #manufacturing #assembly #repair #Atlas #BostonDynamics https://t.co/E6zOJpAGr5 |
Boston Dynamics says building an Atlas used to be “quite an event.” Now it takes about a day. The goal: an hour next year, then minutes in later years. A look inside the shop floor where the company is working to turn humanoid prototypes… |
What goes into building a humanoid? From custom part to running robot, the Atlas shop floor is built on precision, rapid assembly, and real-time collaboration. By machining parts in-house and streamlining assembly and repair under one… |
The U.S. Army is field-testing humanoids. Alex even comes with ballistic protection. At September’s xTechHumanoid trials in Quantico, IHMC’s Alex walked over uneven ground, moved through woodland and crouched to use a small shovel. Alex… |
It is hard for people to resist cute, character-like robots. Meet Hugo--a fluffy purple Tyrolean mountain troll from Dynamic Creatures, the startup Boston Dynamics' former chief strategy officer launched last month. Hugo is meant to notice… |
Boston Dynamics just cut the pinky off its humanoid. On purpose. Meet the new Atlas hand. Three fingers and a thumb. Almost every humanoid company is racing to build the most human-looking hand, five fingers, tendons, beautiful demos. The… |
Boston Dynamics has unveiled a new four-fingered robotic hand for its Atlas humanoid robot, featuring 13 degrees of freedom and tactile sensors to detect pressure. In a demonstration, Atlas uses the hand to operate a drill, tighten a nut,… |
Boston Dynamics’ new CEO inherits Atlas’s commercial proof challenge #Humanoid #Humanoids #HumanoidRobotics #Robotics #PhysicalAI #HumanoidAnalytics https://t.co/dwpQVaPNYB |
🚨 BREAKING: @BostonDynamics appointed a new CEO! 😎 The new CEO is Rohit Prasad, former SVP and Head Scientist for Alexa and AGI at Amazon. An AI veteran, someone who spent 12 years turning AI into products at global scale, building Alexa… |
Latest robot hands: 🇺🇸 Boston Dynamics | new Atlas hand 🇨🇳 Unitree | Dex5-S 🇵🇱 Clone | Torso 3 hand 🇨🇳 Wuji | Hand 2 Four new-generation hands. Four very different design philosophies. https://t.co/Tc2lgJbp4e |
"Hey Alexa... uh, I mean Atlas, hand me the drill." Boston Dynamics has a new CEO: Rohit Prasad, the man who built Alexa. And it's a notable break from BD's past. BD's first two CEOs were hardcore roboticists who helped pioneer the field.… |
Minerva emerged from stealth with $10M—and we interviewed its CEO about humanoids for dangerous work. Also in this week’s briefing: Atlas’s new hands, Galbot pricing and Figure’s fiery farewell. Original reporting. One email a week.… |
These new hands are the perfect companion for Atlas. With 13 degrees of freedom, they are directly actuated, built for high-fidelity simulation to enable sim-to-real RL, and designed from the ground up for dexterous physical work. Video… |
Top stories in robotics today: - California shuts down REK’s human-robot fights - Boston Dynamics drops Atlas’s pinky - FieldAI nears $10B for robot brains - Exoskeletons are having their moment https://t.co/veHn5YNuEV |
Boston Dynamics unveiled a new hand for Atlas: four fingers, 13 DoF. The team decided not to add a pinky. Elon Musk previously pointed out, while discussing Optimus on a podcast, that losing your pinky would noticeably reduce overall hand… |
Atlas' four-finger hand surprised many. But different end-effectors are common. 🇺🇸 Sunday Robotics | Unique gripper 🔶 Built for home chores. 🔶 Easy to simulate and collect data with. 🔶 Still capable of fine manipulation. 🇨🇳 Sharpa |… |
I can't remember the last time this many people from physical AI were booked into one room! The Long Horizon Physical AI Summit by @encord_team lineup is fire! 🔥 → Sebastian Thrun, founder of Google X, who led the self-driving project… |
『アトラスの4本指・13自由度のロボットハンド』 https://t.co/tLBfXguyX3 物の持ち替え、滑りの修正、工具の引き金操作まで可能。 人型の再現より、必要十分な機能と量産性を選んだ設計。 #RobotHand #dexterous #PhysicalAI #Atlas #BostonDynamics https://t.co/0A8y3Qi0St |
Atlas hand and Clone Torso 3 hand dropped the same day and they are not chasing the same job. Atlas cuts the pinky and runs 13 degrees of freedom with a motor in every joint. Built to pinch between the thumb and any finger and to hold a… |
Atlas just got a new set of hands. 🤖🖐️ Boston Dynamics’ Atlas is pushing further into dexterous manipulation, with new hand hardware being showcased for handling and in-hand manipulation. The interesting part isn’t just the humanoid body… |
Two new robot hands today, hours apart. Boston Dynamics built Atlas's like a machine: 4 fingers, 13 DoF, a motor inside every joint, no tendons, no pinky. Clone built its like a body: five fingers pulled by artificial muscles and tendons,… |
Atlas has new hands ... Boston Dynamics skipped the pinky. 13 degrees of freedom (up from 7) 4 fingers, no pinky Sealed motors at every joint Backdrivable, for touch & toughness Built for sim-to-real RL 1X, Tesla and Genesis are at 20+ DOF… |
IMO, the progress here lies in the intentional reduction of complexity... for manufacturing, robustness, and control you can actually simulate. @BostonDynamics’ new Atlas hands: 13 DOF, 4 fingers, single actuator type, directly driven and… |
Atlas finally has dexterous hands built for real work . What do you think? https://t.co/LQwica5e77 https://t.co/CSbcscqA1w |
From Three Fingers to Four Boston Dynamics has equipped Atlas with a four-fingered, direct-drive dexterous hand. Clearly, while three-fingered hands excel at material grasping and sorting, this four-fingered version offers greater… |
Boston Dynamics unveiled a new hand for Atlas. 13 DOF, 4 fingers, directly actuated. The old 7-DOF hand was built to grasp objects; this one is built to manipulate them, in-hand reorientation, slip recovery, and pulling tool triggers… |
These new hands are the perfect companion for Atlas. With 13 degrees of freedom, they are directly actuated, built for high fidelity simulation to enable sim-to-real RL, and designed from the ground up for dexterous physical work. Learn… |
It appears that Hyundai Motor Group is accelerating the rollout of its humanoid robot deployment plans. According to The Korea Herald,Hyundai Motor Group is discussing deploying Atlas humanoid robots at its manufacturing plant in the Czech… |
『自動車製造工場での作業を訓練する人型ロボット』 https://t.co/jIRCctdmGk #humanoidrobot #Atlas #PhysicalAI #training #manufacturing #operation #production #RMAC #HyundaiMotor #BostonDynamics https://t.co/a1G6uerHeM |
Boston Dynamics has several major advantages in the race for humanoid robots: • Decades of robotics engineering • Experience commercializing Spot and Stretch • Real-world factory testing with Hyundai • Access to Hyundai’s production… |
Atlas is starting to look like a real automotive worker. Boston Dynamics has opened its RMAC(Robotics Metaplant Application Center)inside Hyundai Motor Group’s Metaplant America in Georgia, giving Atlas a real-world environment to train… |
Production Atlas getting to work 👀 Some of the first footage we’ve seen of this version handling real tasks, here in training at Hyundai’s Metaplant. Watch an edit of the robot action below. The full film explains why Boston Dynamics… |
Why will Boston Dynamics win the humanoid robotics race? We've already commercialized autonomous mobile robots, creating markets with Spot and Stretch. Now we're doing it again with Atlas: learning in real environments, designing for… |
World Labs co-founders Dr. Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson on compute as the constraint, and the Slack message that convinced them to go all-in on their Atlas model: Fei-Fei: "I think [we] have total conviction about the scaling law." "I do… |
From first components to final assemble, Atlas production is taking flight! Want to build the future of robotics? Check out open roles on our ProtoOps team and more on our careers page. https://t.co/1ukMalnXni |
Boston Dynamics has opened a new Hyundai-linked training and testing center for Atlas. 🤖 What does this mean for the humanoid robot’s development? Read the story: https://t.co/0A3R6s6HvG Subscribe for free for more humanoid robotics news.… |
Boston Dynamics Atlas, 12 years evolving ✶ 2013 | First Steps ✶ 2015 | DARPA Challenge ✶ 2016 | Next Generation ✶ 2017 | First Backflip ✶ 2025 | Fully electric Atlas From a DARPA research robot to a humanoid built to move, manipulate and… |
2004 vs 2026. Same company, completely different robot. Boston Dynamics went from BigDog stumbling across rough terrain to the electric Atlas built for industrial work. 22 years of robotics progress in two clips. Watching them back to back… |
Atlas training advances at Hyundai's Georgia plant #Humanoid #Humanoids #HumanoidRobotics #Robotics #PhysicalAI #HumanoidAnalytics https://t.co/o9r7TrkJp4 |
Evolution Metals' positioning across EV, data center cooling, robotics, and wind power highlights a critical convergence: the physical AI stack. Boston Dynamics training Atlas on manufacturing tasks at Hyundai's Metaplant is a clear… |
Block out a world. Let Atlas bring it to life. A sneak peek at Chisel, now in Atlas beta. https://t.co/ueaTdbItna |
This is the real story. Humanoid robots are moving from labs to live factory floors. Integrating Atlas into Hyundai's Metaplant highlights the industrialization of physical AI. It's about deployment, not just demonstration.… |
Figure tested robots in 30 unfamiliar homes. They completed 56% of the chores. How close are humanoids to everyday usefulness? This week’s briefing: Figure’s results, 1X’s 50,000-robot ambition, Atlas at Hyundai—and a human vs. humanoid… |
UBTECH began deliveries of its globally popular ultra-bionic humanoid robot, UWORLD U1, on September 16. The first deliveries include Shanghai Yongda Group(a luxury car retailer), Beijing Boshi Group(a major Beijing Mercedes-Benz dealer),… |
Hyundai Motor Group is accelerating Boston Dynamics’ Atlas toward real-world deployment and commercial scale. The newly opened Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC) is training and validating Atlas in a real automotive manufacturing… |
Importance of CXMT in China's AI buildout can be seen in these Atlas SuperNode comparison. Despite going from 384 to 1024 chips, HBM size only doubled & overall DRAM only increased by 1/3. Atlas-960 w/ 4096 cards expect to have 1 PB HBM,… |
Atlas is learning factory work at Hyundai’s Georgia Metaplant. Boston Dynamics has opened a training center focused on parts sequencing, with a 10× expansion planned for 2027. The goal: factory deployment from 2028. For now, this is… |
🚨 BREAKING: SoftBank has agreed to acquire the @rai_inst from Hyundai Motor Group, and the story behind this deal is one of the most fascinating in all of robotics. There's not too many details yet. Neither party is saying much for now.… |
Boston Dynamics is expanding its robotics and AI strategy with the launch of the Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC) at @HMGnewsroom Metaplant America. RMAC is a testbed and training center for integrating Atlas robots directly… |
Or that 960 is a lot better. 512k NPU would be 128 Atlas-960 SuperNodes w/ 128 PB of HBM & maybe another another 200 PB+ of other DDR5. They just keep talking about this 10T param model training & inference. Makes me wonder how much of… |
Atlas-950 SuperCluster service will start service in HW Cloud on 9/30 in domestic mkt & 11/30 for oversea. Apparently, Minimax demonstration integration w/ HW Cloud & Atlas w/ its multi-modal models. Looks like DS, Zai & Minimax are all… |
Comparing Atlas 950 to 960 SuperNode. Training MFU is up 10%. Training tps is 2.3x. Inference tps s 2.5x & delay is roughly just 70% 1024 to 4096 card & Hi-ONE NPO means 48k to 0 pluggable transceiver. UnifiedBus means just 2us RTT. 1PB is… |
HW's 100k-card Super Cluster using 25 Atlas-960 SuperNode can train 10T param model w/ 100T tokens in 30 days. Same cluster can divide in 352-card instances for driving inference of 10T models. Can be expanded to 1m-card & include huge CPU… |
World Labs' new Atlas model turns a single photograph into a 3D world you can navigate. It can also turn ordinary phone footage into simulated spaces for training robots: https://t.co/VAprgmEhS6 |
World Labs’ Atlas is opening new possibilities for scalable robotics simulation. Behind the scenes, NVIDIA Isaac and CUDA-enabled PyTorch helped train some locomotion policies, while NVIDIA GPUs rendered the manipulation demo at… |
Pair this up w/ Atlas-960E liquid-cooled SuperPoD for 2027Q3 launch, industry's 1st NPO SuperPoD using 7.2T NPO transceiver. SuperPoD size reduced to 4096 (vs 16k planned in 2025/9). Expecting huge gain in MFU, trainin, decoding &… |
From 32 input images to real-time flight through @nvidia's Voyager headquarters. Trained on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Atlas uses these images as 3D spatial context to generate new views, letting you explore with pixel-perfect camera control.… |
Big... At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei Rotating Chairman David Wang highlighted the Atlas 960E SuperPoD, the industry's first NPO-based SuperPoD, an agentic SuperCluster that can support up to one million NPUs, and progress on NPO… |
USA has Optimus. USA has Atlas. USA has Figure 03. USA has Apollo. USA has Digit 5. China has Unitree G1. China has AGIBOT A2. China has XPENG IRON. China has Walker S2. China has EngineAI T800. China has Fourier GR-2. China has Booster… |
Boston Dynamics is unlikely to go public in 2027, a Hyundai executive tells Reuters. Atlas has a factory roadmap. An IPO still has no announced date. What that means for the humanoid robot maker: https://t.co/V9zCArvHrL |
This is HW’s 3D Data Center. 1st level cooling 2nd level compute 3rd level power supply Roof - Li battery + grid connection + solar? Supports 100k card via 100 Atlas 950 supernodes of 1024 card each (16 64-card cabinets of 96 kW)… |
Three humanoid robots. Three different approaches to factory work. Xiaomi’s CyberOne is working around bins and material handling inside an automotive factory. Tesla Optimus picks up an 11 kg battery tray moves parts and hands objects… |
Agility just unveiled Digit 5. Still green, but it's looking a little more Atlas these days. It's designed to work alongside people without safety fences. It detects nearby people and can avoid them, stop or sit down, backed by an… |
Boston Dynamics may be further from an IPO than investors expected. Reuters reports that a senior Hyundai executive sees a 2027 listing as unlikely. Atlas has yet to be deployed at factory scale, while Boston Dynamics recorded a ₩528.4B… |
Four North American humanoids: Apollo | Apptronik 🇺🇸 Atlas | Boston Dynamics 🇺🇸 Figure 03 | Figure 🇺🇸 Phoenix | Sanctuary AI 🇨🇦 Which one is your pick? https://t.co/b8JdkBXRkC |
Four heavy-load robots built for industry: ✸ S1 🇨🇳 | 50 kg | Galbot ✸ A2 Max 🇨🇳 | 40 kg | AGIBOT ✸ Atlas 🇺🇸 | 30/50 kg | Boston Dynamics ✸ Calvin-40 🇫🇷 | 40–50 kg | Wandercraft Which one would you put to work?… |
WHICH HUMANOID ROBOT WILL WIN THE RACE? 🤖 You can choose only ONE. Forget the coolest design. Which robot has the best chance of becoming the leading mass-market humanoid? Consider: • Real-world capability • Reliability • Cost •… |
Atlas runs on real-time!!🚀 https://t.co/nKs3CUJhl9 |
This might be one of the clearest snapshots yet of how crowded the humanoid robot race has become. 16 humanoid robots ➝ AGIBOT A2 ➝ EngineAI T800 ➝ Xiaomi CyberOne ➝ XPENG IRON ➝ Figure 03 ➝ Galbot ET1 ➝ Unitree humanoids ➝ Boston Dynamics… |
DeepSeek will easily have 500k chips, likely closer to 1m chips once its DC is fully built out. Curious part is this order px that got reported. I've always expected HW chips to be cheaper than Nvidia ones, but $16k per 950DT is well… |
World Labs co-founders Justin Johnson and Dr. Fei-Fei Li say Atlas unifies the two things computer vision has always kept apart: Justin: "Historically, reconstruction has been its own subfield in computer vision with its own specialized… |
Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence. https://t.co/PWLiEhkxuo |
World Labs co-founders Justin Johnson and Dr. Fei-Fei Li say LLMs use next-token prediction, but spatial intelligence has its own equivalent: Justin: "The soft definition of AI-completeness is there's this fundamental primitive that's an… |
I don’t think most people realize what World Labs just built. Atlas can take a handful of ordinary real-world photos or videos and turn them into a navigable 3D environment. You can move the camera through the scene, change the viewpoint,… |
>blogs about ray tracing for a CS project in 2012 >co-founds World Labs in 2024 >ships Atlas in 2026, a spatial intelligence model that turns a few photos into a whole 3D world curiosity compounds https://t.co/bq771VzcKx… |
>be dr. fei-fei li >born in beijing, raised in chengdu >dad moves to new jersey, follow at age 16 >speak almost no english >parents open a dry cleaner >work the counter on weekends >get into princeton on a full scholarship >study physics,… |
World Labs co-founder Justin Johnson says Atlas can recreate the famous "Bullet Time" shot from The Matrix with iPhones: "The way they did that shot is they had a ring of hundreds of cameras. [Neo] fell over in the studio, they had… |
Next view prediction is the key to Atlas, enabling us to unify pixel-level generation and reconstruction. @jcjohnss @BenMildenhall @martin_casado and I had a deeper discussion on some of the most exciting technical innovations of Atlas,… |
Old footage sitting in your camera roll could now be reconstructable as a 3D scene. World Labs co-founders Ben Mildenhall and Fei-Fei Li on how Atlas got there: Ben: "In a casual sense... I took three photos of this object, or six photos… |
World Labs co-founders Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Ben Mildenhall, and a16z's Martin Casado on Atlas, a world model for spatial intelligence: LLMs are built on next token prediction. Video models are built on next frame prediction. Atlas… |
Boston Dynamics Atlas just entered its electric era. 🤖 Boston Dynamics introduced the fully electric version of Atlas, replacing the hydraulic platform and marking the beginning of its commercial humanoid journey. The new Atlas was… |
Managing multiple coding agents is the new hard problem. @N0V4Dev built Atlas in Rust to give agents checkpoints tied to prompts and tool calls, shared memory across tools, and session replay. The problem Atlas is solving: when you run… |
World Labs co-founder Justin Johnson on how five photos from your phone could teach a robot to work in a room it has never seen: "I think there's a couple different tech trees that people are working on. One is this notion of fully… |
Something shifted with the World Labs Atlas announcement. We've had image generators, video generators, and 3D tools for years. Atlas does all three from a single model with the same spatial understanding. The technical description: a… |
September 1, 2026Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world. They understand how worlds appear,… |
Post Log in Sign up Post World Labs on X: "All of this is powered by one unified architecture: a multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer, pretrained from scratch. This foundation blends the best of modern LLMs and video models,… |
September 1, 2026Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world. They understand how worlds appear,… |
Degrees of Freedom (DoF) is a key indicator which shows how many independent ways a robot can move, determining its flexibility and precision. $XPEV is leading by far here. XPeng (IRON): 82 DoF (‼️) Tesla (Optimus): 50 – 72 DoF Boston… |
Post Log in Sign up Post Viral Hunter on X: "Boston Dynamics' Atlas Mastering the Backflip with a Twist: This is How Humanoid Robotics Evolves" - Viral Hunter @wwwsinaptica Boston Dynamics' Atlas Mastering the Backflip with a Twist: This… |