Live vicariously through Boston Dynamics robots in Hyundai's vision for the metaverse at CES

Hyundai wants to let you go where the robots are. When Hyundai bought robot maker Boston Dynamics last year, we weren't sure what to expect from the pair. At CES 2022, the automaker's intentions for the cutting-edge robotics tech became a lot clearer, as it outlined a vision for the metaverse in which robots could be used to bridge the physical and virtual worlds. The concept of the metaverse, essentially a virtual social space, gained traction in 2021 thanks to Facebook parent company Meta embracing it so wholeheartedly. And with the metaverse hailed as the next internet, you can bet that every tech company is working out how it'll both harness the space and contribute to it.