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Boston Dynamics is a robotics company, owned by Hyundai Motor Group, known for advanced mobile robots like the Atlas humanoid and the Spot quadruped.
Google says Gemini 4 Argon turned one photo into more than 4,500 training episodes that raised a real robot's success rate from 56 to 75 percent. The Decoder reports the demos still need detailed human prompting, and access is through paid developer programs.
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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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Hyundai Motor's market value has fallen about 89.8 trillion won since June 1 as the share price lost 58.2%, en.sedaily.com reported. Seventh place on the KOSPI now rests on a lead of about 7.4 trillion won over KB Financial.
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DeepMind reports that Gemini 4 Argon scores 87% on the ERQA embodied reasoning benchmark. Its Spot and robot-arm demos run through a named skill and a set of action primitives, so they test planning over a control stack that already exists.
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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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Minerva Humanoids raised about $10M for Roger, a humanoid that bomb-disposal and energy specialists steer through VR while software keeps it upright. Paid pilots this fall will show whether crews pay for remote hands before autonomy.
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FieldAI is raising $700 million at a $10 billion valuation, five times last year's mark, Business Insider reported. The pitch is robots that cross changing sites like construction without a pre-built map, and so far only FieldAI has stated the setup savings.
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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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Shares in the Chinese robot maker opened at roughly 7.3 times their offer price on Shanghai's Star Market. The number to plan against is not the valuation but the $2,700 robot dog.
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The sprint number came from a company video of a three-month-old prototype. The listing is the durable fact: the first general-purpose robotics company on mainland China's market.
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Generalist AI's arms improvised through a missing tool and a bad grip in front of a reporter. Improvisation is the right test; the account still carries no success rate, price or customer.
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A $200M extension prices the robot foundation model startup at $3B, led by an investor already on the cap table. The field evidence is a company claim about three-second demos.
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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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Viabot's $24m Series A funds a sweeper whose route-planning cameras and lidar also identify loitering, with staff pulled in only when the machine notifies them. Deployments include retailers, universities and healthcare sites.
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Viabot's $24m Series A funds an outdoor sweeper whose navigation sensors are also sold as "soft security" that flags loitering for human monitors. The litter case behind the pitch runs on a 2020 count and a 2009 cost figure.
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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 one humanoid deployment with published duty numbers did a single station's worth of work, while Chinese makers supplied more than four in five installations worldwide in 2025. Both facts shape a pilot decision.
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