Boston Dynamics
Maker of Spot, Stretch and Atlas; an MIT spin-off controlled by Hyundai Motor Group.
About
Boston Dynamics develops mobile robots for industrial inspection, warehouse logistics and manufacturing. Marc Raibert founded it in 1992 as a spin-off of the MIT Leg Lab; Hyundai Motor Group took control in 2021. It is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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- Founded
- 1992
- Country
- United States
RivalsAll rivals
- Figure AIDirect rival
Electric Atlas · Automotive factory deployment
- TeslaDirect rival
Humanoid hardware · Automotive parent
- Agility RoboticsAdjacent rival
Stretch vs Digit in logistics
- Unitree RoboticsDirect rival
Quadruped · Price disruption
Recent newsAll news
- BusinessAtlas hand lead says 13 identical sealed actuators and in-house design are about speed, not dexterity records
- BusinessBoston Dynamics hands the CEO job to former Amazon Alexa and AGI chief Rohit Prasad
- AnalysisInside Unitree Robotics, where humanoids now outsell robot dogs but nearly three-quarters go to labs and classrooms
- BusinessBoston Dynamics drops the pinky on Atlas's new hand to make it cheaper to build and repair
- IndustryWhat is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?