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What actually happens when Stretch arrives at your warehouse? Join Boston Dynamics engineers for a walk-through of how to integrate enterprise robotics into your daily operational rhythm. Register Now: https://t.co/vfhDXjZYl1…

Our 2026 Assembly Plant of the Year is becoming a testing ground for the next generation of factory robotics. https://t.co/rSRkL3AaLT #PlantOfTheYear #TheASSEMBLYShow #HumanoidRobots #PhysicalAI #Robotics #Automation…

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…

Coca-Cola's robot deployment just went from pilot to pattern. After proving out Spot in Barcelona, @CocaColaEP is scaling it globally. It's already live in East Kilbride, Scotland - locating air leaks and automating condition monitoring…

When is a robot the right tool for the job? Comparing manual, fixed, and automated inspection strategies, robotics can drive impact in data availability, accuracy, worker safety, and cost. Discover the best sensing fit for your…

Meet Voxel, a home robot from Tuesday Labs, founded by former Boston Dynamics roboticist Ros Shinkle. Backwards-bending legs, a face on its torso and plenty of character. The goal: tidy, fetch and water plants. $20,000 estimated price,…

Looking fwd to this conversation! https://t.co/5hOgohTMNV

They say robotics moved west, but Boston didn’t get the memo. 🦞 The Massachusetts ecosystem is one of the world's leading hubs for robotics, combining top research, companies, and deep-tech investment. At its core are Massachusetts…

I truly believe we live in times where robots will be present in so maaany new places Not just industrial sites, or warehouses When Marc first told me about his idea of creating robot companions it clicked immediately Just imagine all the…

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…

After an ongoing deployment in Barcelona, @CocaColaEP is scaling Spot globally. Spot is already up and running in East Kilbride, Scotland, locating air leaks and automating condition monitoring rounds. https://t.co/vKmQnIcpRc

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…

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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…

RAI Institute is robotics' wildest lab. Some of its robots: ✸ Robot bicycle ✸ Wheeled biped ✸ Juggling robot Founded in 2022 by Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert SoftBank sold Boston Dynamics to Hyundai. Now it's reportedly buying RAI.…

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…

Spot takes care of the hard parts of robot operation, so operators can focus on what really matters during SWAT, EOD, Hazmat, and search-and-rescue missions. Join our upcoming webinar to hear first hand how @LVMPD puts Spot to work.…

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

SoftBank sold Boston Dynamics five years ago. Now its buying the lab its founder built next. SoftBank has agreed to acquire the @rai_inst, Marc Raibert's research lab. The man who created Boston Dynamics. The same institution Hyundai…

A robot seating gaskets reliably for a full shift would tell manufacturers more than another backflip. Aaron Prather looks at robot hands, durability, and whether the work needs legs on The Business of Automation. https://t.co/4r2hDLbbCP…

With 5 routes and hundreds of assets inspected, Spot is helping @Kirin_Brewery Chitose Plant save free up hundreds of hours a year for their maintenance and operations teams. See how they deployed Spot and Orbit with the help of…

🚨 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…

We eyeballed where the arms went at IROS. It didn't matter. Mounting height did. A 1 cm error cuts success rates by something like 70%. @castorhat's recap covers what mattered for our π0.5 demo, what didn't, and the other site-unseen demos…

Some jobs shouldn't have a human in them at all! ⚠️ I visited @mnv_humanoids in Stuttgart, who are building humanoids for hazardous industrial and public safety work. Yesterday they came out of stealth with a ~$10M pre-seed round led by…

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

I’m pretty amazed by the Long Horizon speaker roster - everytime I check the website it’s still growing. This event is rapidly becoming “the rooms where it happens” for robotics.... plus lots of hallway conversation opportunities.…

"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.…

Deploying reinforcement learning (RL) policies on physical hardware can be challenging. The sim-to-real gap is often caused by out-of-distribution observations or physics models, but can stem from code complexity and discrepancies between…

There really are very few heavy-industry humanoids. For all that people talk about figure and optimus neither is strong enough to do much of the work humans actually do every day, which requires ~50 lb payload. The gap between 40 and 50 lb…

Dexterous manipulation has always been the primary bottleneck on the factory floor. Building directly actuated end-effectors paired with sim-to-real reinforcement learning bridges the final barrier between structured material handling and…

Rohit Prasad’s experience integrating AI into real products is critical. It is not just about advancing robotics, but making it operationally useful in diverse industries. The shift to applied AI. https://t.co/bD8ebCVl50

Agility co-founder Jonathan Hurst, asked by analysts to name his competitors: "Almost none of the humanoid robots that exist compete with us. They have two legs and two arms maybe, but they aren't picking up bins... They don't have any…

Boston Dynamics has named former Amazon AI leader Rohit Prasad as CEO, effective today. Prasad helped build Alexa and led Amazon Nova development. He takes over following Robert Playter’s retirement and Amanda McMaster’s interim tenure.…

Let humanoids do the dangerous work. Every year, around 330,000 workers die from occupational accidents worldwide. Minerva Humanoids wants humanoids to take on some of the jobs where the consequences can be even worse: oil & gas,…

Boston Dynamics has a new CEO: Rohit Prasad. What does this mean? At Amazon, he led Alexa AI: ✸ Built and scaled Alexa ✸ Created Amazon Nova models ✸ Led Amazon's AGI efforts He is an AI-first executive. Its last two CEOs, Marc Raibert and…

Boston Dynamics didn't have a booth at IROS 2026. It still took the week. @castorhat's recap from Pittsburgh covers a show floor crowded with hands, hand makers turning into data companies, and the site-unseen demos that held up ⤵️…

Field notes from IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh: a show floor full of dexterous hands, hand makers turning into data companies, and site-unseen demos that held up. https://t.co/76rYBC8l6B

We are proud to welcome @RohitPrasadAI as our new Chief Executive Officer. He brings decades of experience turning breakthrough AI technologies into category-defining products and will help to accelerate the integration of AI and robotics…

With Spot, pharmaceutical manufacturers have been able to automate data collection and monitor critical environments. Get the whitepaper to see how Spot is adding value today, strategies for deployment, and expansion opportunities.…

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.…

Minerva Humanoids has emerged from stealth with Roger, a semi-autonomous humanoid for hazardous work. Founded by ex-Tesla Optimus and Boston Dynamics engineers, Minerva has raised ~$10M and says it built a walking prototype in five months.…

Four warehouse robots, four different parts of the workflow. ✸ Boston Dynamics Stretch | unloads trailers ✸ Dexterity Mech | loads trailers ✸ AmbiSort A-Series | sorts parcels into sacks ✸ Exotec Skypod | retrieves storage bins…

Google DeepMind, Boston Dynamics, Skild AI, Physical Intelligence… quite a lineup. A who’s who of physical AI and humanoid robotics at Encord’s Long Horizon summit. Use our code HUMANOIDS20 to get 20% off. Oct 20–21 · Fort Mason, SF…

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

Not every robot needs a human-like hand. 🤖🖐️ The end-effector is often designed around the job it needs to perform. 🇺🇸 Sunday Robotics | Unique gripper 🏠 Designed for home chores and fine manipulation 🇨🇳 Sharpa | Five-finger hand ✋…

This robot is Spiderman stuntman! 🪂 That's Sand Flea from Boston Dynamics jumps 10 meters high. In 2021 Boston Dynamics released a video of their jumping robot in action. Sand Flea can clear a 10-meter obstacle (about 30 feet) and is…

Tesla is redesigning the memory configuration of its AI chips for Optimus production. Elon said AI5 was initially planned with 144GB of RAM, then cut to 72GB LPDDR5( later nudged up to 96GB). AI6 is set at 144GB LPDDR6. Elon also says…

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…

This Week in Physical AI 🧵👇 What happened in robotics and embodied AI over the past seven days, featuring @DynaRobotics, @Figure_robot, @BostonDynamics, @fieldai_ and more. Let’s go 🧵👇

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 |…

Incredible piece of engineering. Boston Dynamics has optimized for simulatability and ease of manufacturing over exact human-likeness. New four-finger hand unlock a huge range of dexterous behavior. Now it's AI's turn to explore the…

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 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…

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…

I'm cautiously optimistic about many of the tendon-drive hands coming onto the market (proception is so cool!) but sometimes I worry it's a bit of nerd-sniping. it's this clever cool thing that sounds like a really good idea if only you…

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…

Sony joined IROS 2026 with a robot dog. When you think of robot dogs, designs like Spot probably come to mind. But this one actually looks like a dog. It’s called Aibo. Cute design. https://t.co/vOra4O6RQ7

I'm really excited to be attending both days of the Long Horizon summit. There are already six hundred high-profile registrations from companies including Skild, Wayve, Boston Dynamics, Bear Robotics, Mercedes-Benz, and others.…

『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…

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…

We’re headed to #IROS2026 next week, booth #1102! Ahead of the conference, learn more about the robotic research we’ll be presenting. Topics include methods to enable zero-shot skill composition, whole-body model predictive control for…

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…

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…

Something changed fast with Unitree’s humanoids. Back in June, you could spot the robots on stage almost immediately. By September, they were dressed in the same uniforms as the human performers. By late September, I genuinely couldn’t…

Why an in-person summit still matters when physical AI is moving this fast?! 👀 Look at the last few weeks alone. @SkildAI crossed a $100 million revenue run rate and shipped its S1 model. @wayve_ai started supervised autonomous rides in…

Since @WienEnergie deployed Spot at its Simmering Power Plant in 2023, the robot has conducted over 4,000 inspection routes and walked 1,600 kilometers. Now they are expanding their fleet, adding four new Spot robots to facilities in the…

A blast from the early 2025 past: @scsp_ai 's memo to the @POTUS on a National Robotics Strategy is worth reading in full if you follow physical AI policy. SCSP believes physical AI is a growth and competitiveness issue. It treats robotics…

Massive week in robotics. I went through everything from Figure, Agility, Boston Dynamics and even more. Get your coffee and see what happened in robotics space:

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…

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…

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

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…

The latest updates to Spot and Orbit are breaking down operational silos and enabling agentic workflows to enable bi-direction communication between robots and other factory systems and empower Spot to take action in response. Watch the…

These might be some of the most human looking robots being built right now. The closer you look the impressive it gets. Skin texture blinking eye movement facial muscles lip movement and even tiny expressions are now being engineered into…

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?…

The simplest motor usually wins. That's the whole argument in most hardware right now. Austin Brown, who designs motors at @BostonDynamics, said it plainly on Doesn't Grasp episode 2 with @castorhat. https://t.co/ikQTylox9U

At many industrial facilities, digital transformation is slowed by data silos. Spot and Orbit 5.2 provides the connective layer needed to unlock total site intelligence. This release enables agentic workflows that reason across your…

Top stories in robotics today: - Inside Tesla’s messy Cybercab debut - Ex-Boston Dynamics exec wants cuddlier robots - XPeng starts building IRON humanoids at scale - Zoox is selling the vibe, not just the ride https://t.co/jrwF6F6JyJ