Boston Dynamics

A veteran legged-robot company, maker of the Spot robot dog and the Atlas humanoid.

Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992 by Marc Raibert, growing out of his Leg Laboratory at MIT, and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Google acquired it in 2013, it moved to SoftBank in 2017, and in December 2020 Hyundai Motor Group agreed to buy an 80% stake for about $880 million, a deal that closed in June 2021. The company has long relied on model-based control to achieve highly dynamic legged locomotion, with landmark robots including BigDog, the quadruped Spot (commercialized starting 2019, sold to the public from 2020), the warehouse unloading robot Stretch, and the humanoid Atlas. The hydraulic version of Atlas was retired in April 2024 and replaced by an electric version; a production version of Atlas was unveiled at CES in January 2026, alongside a partnership with Google DeepMind to train foundation models for it. In February 2026, CEO Robert Playter retired and CFO Amanda McMaster became interim CEO.

ExampleSpot, commonly used for factory inspection, carries a thermal camera and a robotic arm on its back, and was one of the first quadruped robots to be commercialized at scale.

Also called

波动 (colloquial Chinese nickname)

Related

Boston Dynamics Atlas (Electric) · Boston Dynamics Atlas (Hydraulic) · Boston Dynamics Spot · Boston Dynamics Stretch · Hyundai Motor Group · Google DeepMind

Sources

Boston Dynamics - Wikipedia
CES 2026: Boston Dynamics unveils new Atlas

As of

2026-02