The new Atlas will be deployed at Hyundai and Google DeepMind first. Boston Dynamics' Atlas is finally entering production. After years of testing this humanoid robot (and forcing it to dance), the robotics company announced at CES 2026 that the final version of the machine is being built now. The first companies to receive deployments will be Hyundai, Boston Dynamics' majority shareholder, and Google DeepMind, the firm's new AI partner . This final enterprise version of Atlas can perform a wide array of industrial tasks, according to Boston Dynamics, and is specifically designed with consistency and reliability in mind.

The new Atlas will be deployed at Hyundai and Google DeepMind first. After years of testing its humanoid robot (and forcing it to dance), Boston Dynamics' Atlas is entering production . The robotics company says the final product version of the robot is being built now, and the first companies that will receive deployments are Hyundai, Boston Dynamics' majority shareholder, and Google DeepMind, the firm's newly minted AI partner. This final enterprise version of Atlas can perform a wide array of industrial tasks, according to Boston Dynamics, and is specifically designed with consistency and reliability in mind. Atlas can work autonomously, via a teleoperator or with a tablet steering interface, and the robot is both strong and durable.

Boston Dynamics, the flashy robotics company maybe best known for orchestrating absurd robo-dance routines, has a new video out emphasizing its pivot towards commercial factory work. The three-minute demo shows the company's humanoid-shaped Atlas robot locating, grabbing, and moving engine covers between supply containers in a mock manufacturing center. The company claims Atlas performs all of the tasks in the video fully autonomously, with no "prescribed or teleoperated movements." Above, Atlas can be seen using its claw-like three fingers to grab engine covers. Boston Dynamics says Atlas uses a machine learning vision model to locate and identify the proper object and then utilizes an assortment of vision and force sensors to safely move it to the right location.

In a new video caught by TechCrunch, Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot Atlas can be seen working autonomously in a demo space, sorting engine parts between numbered bins. The company claims that Atlas doesn't need to be controlled by humans to do work. According to the video description, Atlas uses machine learning to detect environmental changes and work around them. It also has a "specialized grasping policy" to help it maintain a firm hold on objects, continuously estimating the state of what it's holding. After receiving some bin locations to move parts between, Atlas will get to work without prescribed movements, opting to perform tasks independently. In contrast, Tesla's Optimus robots were said to receive human remote assistance despite autonomy claims.

Boston Dynamics has unveiled a new version of its Atlas humanoid robot, showing its creepy movements that make it look like something out of a sci-fi horror movie. The Massachusetts-based robotics company shared a video of the latest humanoid, showing it pulling its leg behind its heads to stand up - in a way that the public said'looked like something out of The Exorcist.' This new version boasts joints that let the machine bend and move in ways that the human body can't - unlike the original, rigid Atlas that was famous for dancing and doing parkour. The company also plans to sell the latest humanoid robot, but the price has yet to be disclosed, and it is set to begin its first job at Hyundai's factories next year. Boston Dynamics announced the new version of its humanoid robot Atlas, featuring a ring light as its face.

Old robots never die, they simply fade away. This week, Boston Dynamics said adieu to HD Atlas, the human-ish robot that debuted over a decade ago. And then promptly introduced its replacement. For years, Atlas has scared us silly with cutesy dance moves and parkour flips that we just knew would one day lead to our annihilation as a species. The robopocalypse never came, of course, and Atlas just got cuter the more it fell off boxes, bounced off tables, rolled down grass hills, and jived to Dirty Dancing tracks.

When Boston Dynamics announced on Tuesday it was retiring the hydraulic version of Atlas, there were a few hints that the company wasn't done with humanoid robots entirely. Sure enough, one day later, Boston Dynamics has unveiled an all-electric model. Atlas was originally envisioned as a search-and-rescue robot and Boston Dynamics claims the latest model is designed for real-world applications. It calls Atlas "the world's most dynamic humanoid robot" and it certainly looks limber. A video shows Atlas lying prostrate and flipping its feet over to push itself up into a standing position.

We present PV-OSIMr, an efficient algorithm for computing the Delassus matrix (also known as the inverse operational space inertia matrix) for a kinematic tree, with the lowest order computational complexity known in literature. PV-OSIMr is derived by optimizing the Popov-Vereshchagin (PV) solver computations using the compositionality of the force and motion propagators. It has a computational complexity of O(n + m^2 ) compared to O(n + m^2d) of the original PV-OSIM algorithm and O(n+md+m^2 ) of the extended force propagator algorithm (EFPA), where n is the number of joints, m is the number of constraints and d is the depth of the kinematic tree. Since Delassus matrix computation requires constructing an m x m sized matrix and must consider all the n joints at least once, the asymptotic computational complexity of PV-OSIMr is optimal. We further benchmark our algorithm and find it to be often more efficient than the PV-OSIM and EFPA in practice.

A big challenge for humanoid robots is bipedal walking. IHMC has been pioneering advanced control techniques for bipedal robots to maintain balance while walking over a wide variety of terrains. While great strides have recently been made in robotics, robots still are unable to get to all the same places as people. Our humanoid projects are focused on pushing our bipedal humanoids capabilities forward to handle rough terrain without any knowledge of the environment from onboard sensors. Then, when this knowledge is included, their performance is further improved.

Boston Dynamics showed off the latest feat from its bipedal Atlas robot Thursday, in a video showing it running and jumping over obstacles with ease. "Atlas does parkour," the company said in a statement. "The control software uses the whole body including legs, arms and torso, to marshal the energy and strength for jumping over the log and leaping up the steps without breaking its pace. Atlas uses computer vision to locate itself with respect to visible markers on the approach to hit the terrain accurately." So when the robots take over, don't even bother trying to run away.