Boston Dynamics
Maker of Spot, Stretch and Atlas; an MIT spin-off controlled by Hyundai Motor Group.
About
Boston Dynamics develops mobile robots for industrial inspection, warehouse logistics and manufacturing. Marc Raibert founded it in 1992 as a spin-off of the MIT Leg Lab; Hyundai Motor Group took control in 2021. It is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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- Founded
- 1992
- Country
- United States
RivalsAll rivals
- Figure AIDirect rival
Electric Atlas · Automotive factory deployment
- TeslaDirect rival
Humanoid hardware · Automotive parent
- Agility RoboticsAdjacent rival
Stretch vs Digit in logistics
- Unitree RoboticsDirect rival
Quadruped · Price disruption
Recent newsAll news
- IndustryWhat is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
- ProductANYbotics launches Shift, pitching its inspection robots on the maintenance tickets they create
- BusinessBoston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia plant as Hyundai targets 25,000 humanoids
- FundingShipyard humanoid maker Persona AI reports $65.4 million sold toward a $142 million private offering
- PartnershipLG and NVIDIA sign robotics pact; LG to unveil bipedal humanoid built with group parts in early 2027