Facts

• Company: Boston Dynamics
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: active
• Capability focus: Generalist
• Website: https://bostondynamics.com/products/atlas/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Record / Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Supply / Components
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Atlas is Boston Dynamics fully electric humanoid robot for industrial automation. It is being developed for enterprise material handling and factory tasks, using autonomous movement, strength and flexible operation in human-built workspaces.

Overview

Atlas is Boston Dynamics fully electric humanoid robot for industrial automation. It is being developed for enterprise material handling and factory tasks, using autonomous movement, strength and flexible operation in human-built workspaces.

Market context

Atlas is Boston Dynamics' electric humanoid robot designed for industrial material handling and autonomous task execution in factory environments.

• Target environment: Factory floors, industrial research sites and structured workplace environments.
• Workflow context: Material handling, heavy object manipulation and whole-body industrial tasks requiring dynamic mobility and coordination.
• Customer context: Industrial research programs, advanced manufacturing teams and technology demonstration partners.
• Deployment model: Transitioning from a long-running research platform to a commercial industrial product.
• Commercial maturity: Active platform with real factory pilot deployments. The shift from hydraulic to electric hardware signals commercial intent.
• Adoption constraints: Still in early commercial deployment. The main constraint is proving consistent operation across unstructured factory conditions.
• Market position: One of the most recognized humanoid platforms globally. Serves as a reference point for both advanced locomotion and commercial humanoid ambition.
• Adjacent products: Apollo, Digit, Spot

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Material handling, heavy object manipulation and whole-body industrial tasks requiring dynamic mobility and coordination.

Capability

generalist

Deployment environment

Factory floors, industrial research sites and structured workplace environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Material handling, heavy object manipulation and whole-body industrial tasks requiring dynamic mobility and coordination.
• Capability: generalist
• Deployment environment: Factory floors, industrial research sites and structured workplace environments.

Specifications

• Safety Features: Fenceless guarding and human detection
• Height: 1.9 m
• Weight: 90 kg
• Dof: 56
• Sensors Summary: Tactile fingers and palm, 360-degree camera view
• Runtime: 4 h
• Charging: Autonomous battery swap in 3 minutes; charge time 1.5 hours
• Payload Capacity: 50 kg instant; 30 kg sustained; 20 kg one-handed
• Reach: 2.3 m
• Operation Modes: Autonomous, VR teleoperated, tablet control
• Ip Rating: IP67
• Operating Temp: -20 to 40 C
• Manipulation: Dexterous manipulation for material handling and order fulfillment
• Operational Environment: Industrial workspaces, warehouses, and factories

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial humanoid platform, Humanoid robot platform
• Workflow: Humanoid workplace tasks
• Capability: Whole-body control
• Deployment Environment: Factory floor
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Benchmark reference product, Deployed platform

Record / Articles

• 2026-01-05 - Article - Boston Dynamics begins production of Atlas humanoid

Timeline / Research

• 2026-05-01 - Org Change - Boston Dynamics sees C-suite departures amid pressure to accelerate Atlas production - Semafor reported a recent C-suite exodus at Boston Dynamics, including the CEO, COO, chief strategy office…
• 2026-04-10 - Partnership - Kia and Boston Dynamics advance Atlas humanoid deployment in manufacturing - Kia and Boston Dynamics outlined plans to bring Atlas humanoid robots into automotive manufacturing workflows.
• 2026-02-01 - Research Publication - ZEST paper transfers athletic skills to Boston Dynamics Atlas - ZEST learns dynamic multi-contact humanoid skills from motion capture and video without contact labels or extensive rew…
• 2026-01-14 - Deployment - Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot deployed at Hyundai's Georgia Metaplant - • Boston Dynamics deployed its all-electric Atlas humanoid robot at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Ellabell, Geo…
• 2026-01-08 - Partnership - Hyundai Mobis forms strategic collaboration framework with Boston Dynamics - Hyundai Mobis and Boston Dynamics announced a strategic collaboration framework on humanoid components.
• 2026-01-05 - Product Launch - Boston Dynamics announces product version of Atlas® robot - Third-generation platform, following earlier models.
• 2025-05-12 - Partnership - Boston Dynamics, LG Innotek co-develop vision system for Atlas humanoid - Boston Dynamics and LG Innotek entered a collaboration to develop a next-generation robot vision system for Atlas.
• 2022-03-01 - Research Publication - Atlas rough-terrain paper demonstrates traversability-aware humanoid path planning - The paper presents a humanoid navigation planner that uses traversability assessment over 2.5D hei…

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Target Annual Capacity Robots - 30,000 robots/year - 2026-01-05 - Hyundai Motor Group - automotive manufacturing - Hyundai Motor Group said it aims to establish a scalable production system capable of manufacturing 30,0…

Supply / Components

• Hyundai Mobis actuators for Atlas - Atlas Humanoid Actuators - Actuation - Hyundai Mobis - Hyundai Mobis states that it will supply actuators for Atlas, Boston Dynamics' next-generation humanoid robot - source: mobis.com

Comparable Systems

• Apollo - Apptronik - Humanoid
• PUDU D9 - Pudu Robotics - Anthropomorphic Biped
• IRON - XPeng Inc. - Humanoid
• Kepler K2 - Kepler Robotics - Humanoid
• 4NE1 - Neura Robotics - Humanoid
• Vanar Generation-1 - Vanar Robots - Humanoid
• Walker S1 - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform
• Walker S - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform