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ROBOTNESS has published 20 stories about Boston Dynamics since Jan 5, 2026; the latest is from Oct 1, 2026.

Data as of Oct 1, 2026. Included: company announcements, regulator filings and reported rounds; estimates and sample rows are excluded, and undisclosed amounts are never estimated.

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Jan 5, 2026

Latest story

Oct 1, 2026

Stories about Boston Dynamics

What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Industry
ANYbotics launches Shift, pitching its inspection robots on the maintenance tickets they create
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Product
Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia plant as Hyundai targets 25,000 humanoids
Date
Sep 21, 2026
Type
Business
Shipyard humanoid maker Persona AI reports $65.4 million sold toward a $142 million private offering
Date
Sep 14, 2026
Type
Funding
LG and NVIDIA sign robotics pact; LG to unveil bipedal humanoid built with group parts in early 2027
Date
Aug 14, 2026
Type
Partnership
Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 2, taking its robot models to whole-body humanoid control
Date
Jul 30, 2026
Type
Product
Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation
Date
Jul 15, 2026
Type
Funding
Figure puts its F.03 humanoid on BMW's Spartanburg floor after a 24-fold production ramp and a first Brookfield-linked retail deal
Date
Jun 30, 2026
Type
Business
ANYbotics opens a Barcelona engineering hub as the Swiss inspection-robot maker builds out AI talent for its ANYmal fleet
Date
Jun 16, 2026
Type
Business
Amazon FAR's OmniRetarget takes ICRA 2026's top paper prize for turning human motion into humanoid training data
Date
Jun 4, 2026
Type
Research
NVIDIA sets a reference humanoid for labs, pairing Unitree's H2 Plus with Sharpa hands and a Jetson Thor brain
Date
Jun 1, 2026
Type
Product
Tesla will retire Model S and X lines in Fremont for an Optimus line designed for 1 million robots a year, and plans a 10 million-unit line in Texas
Date
Apr 22, 2026
Type
Business
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data
Date
Apr 15, 2026
Type
Research
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 teaches robots to read gauges, lifting accuracy to 93% with Boston Dynamics' Spot as first showcase
Date
Apr 14, 2026
Type
Product
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
Funding
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre
Date
Feb 27, 2026
Type
Business
Apptronik raises $520 million Series A-X at triple its earlier valuation, taking the round past $935 million as it readies a new Apollo
Date
Feb 11, 2026
Type
Funding
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code
Date
Jan 27, 2026
Type
Research
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive
Date
Jan 6, 2026
Type
M&A
Boston Dynamics starts building the production Atlas as Hyundai targets 30,000 robots a year and a Georgia line debut in 2028
Date
Jan 5, 2026
Type
Product

Headline	Date	Type
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?	Oct 1, 2026	Industry
ANYbotics launches Shift, pitching its inspection robots on the maintenance tickets they create	Oct 1, 2026	Product
Boston Dynamics opens Atlas training center at Hyundai's Georgia plant as Hyundai targets 25,000 humanoids	Sep 21, 2026	Business
Shipyard humanoid maker Persona AI reports $65.4 million sold toward a $142 million private offering	Sep 14, 2026	Funding
LG and NVIDIA sign robotics pact; LG to unveil bipedal humanoid built with group parts in early 2027	Aug 14, 2026	Partnership
Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 2, taking its robot models to whole-body humanoid control	Jul 30, 2026	Product
Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation	Jul 15, 2026	Funding
Figure puts its F.03 humanoid on BMW's Spartanburg floor after a 24-fold production ramp and a first Brookfield-linked retail deal	Jun 30, 2026	Business
ANYbotics opens a Barcelona engineering hub as the Swiss inspection-robot maker builds out AI talent for its ANYmal fleet	Jun 16, 2026	Business
Amazon FAR's OmniRetarget takes ICRA 2026's top paper prize for turning human motion into humanoid training data	Jun 4, 2026	Research
NVIDIA sets a reference humanoid for labs, pairing Unitree's H2 Plus with Sharpa hands and a Jetson Thor brain	Jun 1, 2026	Product
Tesla will retire Model S and X lines in Fremont for an Optimus line designed for 1 million robots a year, and plans a 10 million-unit line in Texas	Apr 22, 2026	Business
Toyota Research Institute's blind trials in Science Robotics find multitask robot models learn new tasks with a fraction of the data	Apr 15, 2026	Research
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 teaches robots to read gauges, lifting accuracy to 93% with Boston Dynamics' Spot as first showcase	Apr 14, 2026	Product
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake	Mar 11, 2026	Funding
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre	Feb 27, 2026	Business
Apptronik raises $520 million Series A-X at triple its earlier valuation, taking the round past $935 million as it readies a new Apollo	Feb 11, 2026	Funding
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code	Jan 27, 2026	Research
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive	Jan 6, 2026	M&A
Boston Dynamics starts building the production Atlas as Hyundai targets 30,000 robots a year and a Georgia line debut in 2028	Jan 5, 2026	Product

Data as of Oct 1, 2026

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