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Boston Dynamics Names Former Amazon AI Leader Rohit Prasad as CEO
Prasad takes over on October 7, bringing experience leading Alexa and Amazon Nova as Boston Dynamics advances its AI and commercialization plans.
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Boston Dynamics Gives Atlas Four-Finger Hands Built for Tools and AI Training
Atlas’s new hands increase dexterity from seven to 13 degrees of freedom, combining tactile sensing and direct actuation with a design built for simulation-based learning.
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Boston Dynamics Makes Its Case for Atlas and a Two-Year Payback Target
A new short film argues that experience with Spot and Stretch, plus Hyundai’s factories and supply chain, gives Boston Dynamics an edge in commercializing Atlas.
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Boston Dynamics Takes a Drone Through Atlas Production in New Hiring Push
A new fly-through shows the workshops and assembly spaces behind Atlas, as Boston Dynamics promotes ProtoOps hiring and lists roles across manufacturing, testing and data operations.
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T-Robotics to Lead KRW 4.5 Billion Humanoid Project for Korean Display Factories
The project pairs T-Robotics with KAIST and a major display manufacturer for development and production-line trials through 2030, adding an industrial application to South Korea’s humanoid push.
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HD Hyundai Wants Humanoid AI to Upgrade Its Existing Factory Robots
HD Hyundai Robotics plans to bring humanoid perception and manipulation technology to existing factory robots, alongside hand development with AIDIN and its Persona AI welding partnership.
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South Korea Plans Robot AI Push in 2027, Starting With Logistics
A planned 2027 program would combine robot AI research, a physical-data library and early postal and logistics trials. Its budget is still being finalized.
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Robros Adds Full-Body Teleoperation to Its Korean Humanoid
Robros extends human control across IGRIS-C’s body as the Seoul startup reports early industrial sales and South Korea builds its humanoid ecosystem.
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KIST Chief Says Korea Can Join the US and China as a Humanoid Power
KIST’s president sees a path to a three-way humanoid race. Korea’s KAPEX and research strategy support that ambition, while Europe is pursuing its own industrial route.
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CJ Logistics Puts ROBOTIS Dual-Arm "AI Worker" on Live Olive Young Fulfillment Lines
Moving beyond experimental pilots, South Korean logistics giant CJ Logistics has integrated two ROBOTIS semi-humanoids into an active e-commerce packing workflow to feed its Physical AI foundation models.
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South Korea Commits KRW 2.3 Trillion to Build Full-Stack Humanoid Robotics Ecosystem by 2030
South Korea is allocating $1.66 billion directly to humanoid robotics and $2.0 billion for physical AI field verification, targeting an 80% domestic component localization rate and state procurement of over 1,000 bipedal units.
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Hyundai Says Atlas Will Not Replace Workers — One Day After Settling a Strike Over Exactly That
At its 2026 CEO Investor Day, Hyundai put hard numbers behind Atlas for the first time: 30,000 units of annual US capacity from 2028, 25,000 already spoken for. It also went out of its way to insist robots are "in service of humans" — a line delivered 24 hours after its Korean union settled a walkout that demanded protection from automation.
