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Tools & manufacturing · January 2026

Production Atlas

Boston Dynamics' humanoid goes from demo to factory product.

Boston Dynamics unveiled a production Atlas at CES with 56 degrees of freedom, a 50 kg lift and self-swapping batteries. All 2026 units went to Hyundai and Google DeepMind, and Hyundai planned a 30,000-robot-a-year factory.

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Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

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The dashed line marks when it first worked.

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