Atlas (electric)
The electric Atlas, revealed on 17 April 2024, replaced the hydraulic Atlas with a fully electric design whose joints rotate through 360 degrees. Boston Dynamics is developing it as a commercial factory robot with Hyundai Motor Group and using large behavior models from Toyota Research Institute and Google DeepMind. A production-intent version was unveiled at CES in January 2026.
Boston Dynamics press imageWe have not sat down with this one. The score below is computed from the data we hold, and the facts on this page are sourced. It is not on sale, so there is nothing to recommend.
How the score is built
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What people buy instead.
- Status
- In pilots
- Category
- industrial
- First revealed
- 17 April 2024
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- n/a
- Weight
- n/a
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric, custom high-torque rotary actuators, joints with 360 degree range
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Production-intent design shown at CES 2026; testing with Hyundai Motor Group with factory deployment planned at HMGMA; not for sale.
What stands out
- Fully electric with 360 degree joints
- Toyota Research Institute partnership (October 2024)
- Hyundai HMGMA testing; production version shown at CES 2026
- Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics partnership (2026)
Autonomy, observed
Videos of autonomous parts sequencing (October 2024) and whole-body manipulation with TRI (2025); Hyundai plant testing reported.
Demos are autonomous; training data includes teleoperation.
Hands, sensors, brain
- AI stack: Large behavior models with Toyota Research Institute; Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics partnership announced 2026
Price and volume
no public price
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Atlas (electric) sits at #75 of 107 with 28 points: deployment 10/50, autonomy 18/30, availability 0/20. See that method.
Where Atlas (electric) works.
| Customer | Site | Sector | Task | Since | Status | Units | Autonomy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyundai Motor Group | Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, Ellabell, Georgia, United States | automotive | Parts sequencing and material handling in the Metaplant, as a path to mass production of Atlas in 2028 | Sep 2025 | announced | n/d | autonomous |
Milestones.
CES 2026: humanoids from Boston Dynamics, Nvidia partners and Chinese makers
CES 2026 in Las Vegas features a new production oriented Atlas from Boston Dynamics and Hyundai, Nvidia's updated robotics stack and a large presence of Chinese humanoid makers. Placeholder pending verification.
Hyundai plans to deploy Atlas at its Georgia Metaplant
At its CEO Investor Day, Hyundai Motor Group says Boston Dynamics' Atlas will be tested at the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Georgia with mass production of Atlas targeted for 2028. Hyundai also announces a robotics investment of tens of thousands of units across the group.
Electric Atlas sorts engine parts fully autonomously
Boston Dynamics releases a video of the electric Atlas moving engine covers between containers and a mobile sequencing dolly using a machine learning vision model, with no teleoperation or prescripted movements. It is the first autonomy demonstration of the new Atlas.
Boston Dynamics reveals the all electric Atlas
One day after retiring the hydraulic model, Boston Dynamics shows a fully electric Atlas that stands up from lying flat by rotating its legs 180 degrees, with joints that rotate beyond human range. Hyundai is named as the first customer for testing in its factories.
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How a humanoid robot works: actuators, compute, sensors and the model
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Who is paying for humanoids: 69 funding rounds
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44 you can order, 138 you cannot: the gap explained
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Other robots by Boston Dynamics.
Atlas (hydraulic)
The hydraulic Atlas was unveiled in July 2013 for the DARPA Robotics Challenge and became the best-known research humanoid of the 2010s through its parkour and backflip videos. Later versions were 150 cm tall, 89 kg and had 28 hydraulic joints. Boston Dynamics retired it in April 2024.
PETMAN
PETMAN was a hydraulic, tethered humanoid built by Boston Dynamics for the US Department of Defense to test chemical protection suits by walking, crouching and sweating. Videos in 2011 and 2013 showed it walking on a treadmill and doing push-ups. Its anthropomorphic legs and balance work fed directly into the first Atlas.
Sources
- 01An electric new era for AtlasBoston Dynamics · 2024-04-17
- 02AtlasBoston Dynamics
- 03Atlas (robot)Wikipedia
Price sources
- 01Humanoid robots for sale: 2026 guideThere's A Robot For That · 2026-08-15
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