Hyundai and Boston Dynamics unveil production Atlas humanoid at CES 2026

On 5 January 2026, Hyundai Motor Group and its robotics subsidiary Boston Dynamics presented the production version of the Atlas humanoid robot at the CES technology show in Las Vegas. It was the first time the company showed Atlas as a commercial product rather than a research platform.

The new Atlas replaced the hydraulic research model, which Boston Dynamics had retired in 2024, with a fully electric design built for repeated industrial work. Hyundai said it planned to deploy the robot in its factories, including its Georgia electric-vehicle plant in the United States, beginning with simple tasks such as sequencing parts and moving to more complex assembly work over several years.

Hyundai also described plans to scale up robot manufacturing in the coming years and announced a collaboration with Google DeepMind on the AI that would drive the robot's behaviour. The event mattered because it marked a shift for Atlas from viral demonstration videos to a product with a stated factory role, and it set the baseline against which later Atlas capability demonstrations have been measured.