Boston Dynamics unveils production-ready model of Atlas robotic at CES 2026

After years of testing its humanoid robotic (and forcing it to dance), Boston Dynamics’ Atlas is entering production. The robotics firm stated at CES 2026 that the ultimate product model of the robotic is being constructed now, and the primary corporations that may obtain deployments are Hyundai, Boston Dynamics’ majority shareholder, and Google DeepMind, the agency’s newly minted AI partner.

This remaining enterprise model of Atlas “can carry out a wide selection of commercial duties,” in line with Boston Dynamics, and is particularly designed with consistency and reliability in thoughts. Atlas can work autonomously, through a teleoperator or with “a pill steering interface,” and the robotic is each robust and sturdy. Boston Dynamics says Atlas has a attain of as much as 7.5 toes, the power to raise 110 kilos and might function at temperatures starting from minus 4 to 104 levels Fahrenheit. “That is the most effective robotic we have now ever constructed,” Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter stated within the Atlas announcement. “Atlas goes to revolutionize the way in which trade works, and it marks step one towards a long-term objective we have now dreamed about since we had been youngsters.”

Boston Dynamics has been publicly demoing its work on humanoid robots since no less than 2011, when it first debuted Atlas as a DARPA venture. Since then, the robotic has gone by way of a number of prototypes and revisions, most notably switching from a hydraulic design to an all-electric design in 2024. Later that yr, Boston Dynamics demonstrated the robotic’s potential to control automotive components, which seems to be one of many first methods Atlas will probably be put to work.

Hyundai plans to use Atlas in its automotive crops in 2028, targeted on duties like components sequencing. In 2030, the automotive maker hopes to have the robotic’s obligations “prolong to part meeting, and over time, Atlas may also tackle duties involving repetitive motions, heavy hundreds, and different advanced operations,” Hyundai says. Google DeepMind, in the meantime, is receiving Atlas robots so it could possibly work on integrating its Gemini Robotics AI basis fashions into Boston Dynamics’ system.