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Humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics, owned by Hyundai, built for bipedal locomotion and dexterous manipulation in commercial settings.
Boston Dynamics says its prototype team can build an Atlas humanoid in about a day and is aiming for about an hour next year. Interesting Engineering says the figures describe the prototype shop and set no production rate or delivery date.
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Boston Dynamics finalized a four-finger Atlas hand with 13 degrees of freedom, while Tesla's Optimus keeps five fingers and 22. The nine-degree gap is where Optimus's extra actuators, assembly labor and rework sit, according to the Korea Herald's sources.
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Boston Dynamics made former Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad CEO from October 7, with Atlas deployments at Hyundai and Google DeepMind scheduled for 2026. His record is in shipping AI software to households, while the job he takes on is getting a humanoid to work reliably through factory shifts.
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AGILINK's OmniHand 3 Ultra split a silk thread into 16 strands, threaded a needle and made its first stitches in a company video of Suzhou embroidery. Silk slips under small changes in force, so it is a hard test of touch-guided control, and so far the only evidence comes from AGILINK's own video.
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Boston Dynamics gave Atlas a four-finger hand with 13 degrees of freedom, judging a pinky not worth three more actuators. Manufacturability and simulation training shaped it as much as dexterity, and buyers can test that choice against their own task lists.
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The Japanese carmaker will install 150,000 humanoids in its own plants and 250,000 at affiliates, aiming at 60 factories. The only annual build rate on the record is Tesla's 50,000 Optimus units. Hyundai's union wants a veto.
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Figure's software finished 56% of chores in 30 unfamiliar homes, Boston Dynamics began training Atlas inside a Hyundai plant, and Unitree priced a 22-joint hand at $6,500.
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Mirae Asset lists the TIGER physical AI ETF on the Korea Exchange on the 22nd with 25% fixed to Hyundai Motor and 25% to LG Electronics, plus a standing rule to buy humanoid robot issuers at the close of the day after they list.
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Hyundai has ruled out a 2027 listing for Boston Dynamics, whose 528.4 billion won loss last year was about a third of its five-year total, and Meritz Securities now expects a debut in 2029 or 2030.
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The robotics office Samsung created in July has a single executive running both the drivetrain team and the perception team, which is a cheap piece of optionality against Chinese rivals who took more than 97 percent of first-half humanoid shipments.
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A dev.to post walks through an eighty-line ALTER TABLE that no reviewer can judge from text, which is the argument for moving the gate off reading and onto a restored copy with real row counts and a clock on the lock.
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Xpeng's robotics unit took in more than $900 million at a $6.3 billion post-money valuation, one of eight Chinese carmakers now building humanoids, while the nearest thing to a dated job on a real factory floor belongs to Hyundai.
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The second World Humanoid Robot Games cut the machines' 100-metre time from 21.5 seconds to 8.64 in a year, while the dexterity events failed even with human operators in control gloves. That puts the bottleneck in the hands.
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A Seoul editorial reads the addition as proof that the US now treats cars, robots and AI as one "physical AI" supply chain. The measure's scope is still unpublished, and that is the part buyers must price.
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