Boston Dynamics unveils production Atlas humanoid robot at CES, deploying with Hyundai

Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated the production version of its electric Atlas humanoid robot for the first time, walking on stage during Hyundai’s CES media-day presentation in Las Vegas. Boston Dynamics engineer Zachary Jackowski introduced it as appearing “for the first time ever in public,” and the robot walked and moved its head to the crowd for several minutes.

The company described Atlas as enterprise-grade hardware for material handling and order fulfilment: fully electric, with 56 degrees of freedom, a lift capacity of up to 50kg, a 2.3-metre reach, and the ability to navigate autonomously to charging stations and swap its own batteries without stopping work. Boston Dynamics said production of the new units had already begun at its Boston headquarters.

All of Boston Dynamics’ 2026 Atlas output was already committed before the public unveiling, with fleets scheduled to ship to Hyundai’s Robotics Metaplant Application Center and to Google DeepMind. Hyundai, which owns Boston Dynamics and has committed $26 billion to US operations including a planned factory producing 30,000 robots a year, said the humanoid would eventually help assemble vehicles at its Metaplant America electric-vehicle factory near Savannah, Georgia, with that deployment expected by 2028 — putting a multi-year gap between the CES demonstration and Atlas actually working an automotive production line.