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Atlas
United States · Development · 
Summary
Atlas is Boston Dynamics' fully electric humanoid robot for industrial automation, developed for enterprise material handling and factory tasks.
Identity
Status
Development
Category
Humanoid
Type
Humanoid
Function
Locomotion
Audience
Researchers
Physical
HEIGHT
190 cm
WEIGHT
90 kg
PAYLOAD
50kg instant, 30kg sustained, 20kg one-handed
Performance
RUNTIME
4 h
Other
DEGREES OF FREEDOM
56
REACH
2.3 m
CHARGING
Autonomous battery swap in 3 min, charge time 1.5h
SENSORS
Tactile fingers and palm, 360-degree camera view
SAFETY
Fenceless guarding and human detection
IP RATING
IP67
OPERATING TEMP
-20 to 40 C
OPERATION MODES
Autonomous, VR teleoperated, tablet control
ENVIRONMENT
Industrial workspaces, warehouses, factories
Video
Capabilities
PILOT (date not recorded) — Order and component sorting: Boston Dynamics documents Atlas field testing at Hyundai for real-world manufacturing sequencing and material-handling tasks under human supervision; describes a first customer pilot rather than broad deployment.
Height — ranked across 105 Humanoid platforms · this robot ranks #3
Weight — ranked across 88 Humanoid platforms · this robot ranks #8
Payload — ranked across 69 Humanoid platforms · this robot ranks #3
Comparable systems — same status tier
Other systems from Boston Dynamics
Context & Benchmark
Comparable systems: Pudu D9 (Pudu Robotics), 4NE1 (Neura Robotics), IRON (XPeng), Kepler K2 (Kepler Robotics), Calvin-40 (Wandercraft), Optimus (Tesla). Related systems: AEON (Hexagon), HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal (Humanoid), Phoenix (Sanctuary AI), E1 (Noetix Robotics), TORO (DLR), Haribit (Haribit).
Timeline
PARTNERSHIP (16 Oct 2024) — Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute announce humanoid robotics partnership to accelerate development of general-purpose humanoid robots using TRI's Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot (reported at pressroom.toyota.com).
Research
PAPER (30 Jan 2026) — '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 reward shaping; deployed on Atlas for crawling, dance-like motions, and scene-interaction skills such as box climbing. Gives Atlas a benchmark for zero-shot athletic skill transfer across heterogeneous movement data/embodiments.
Resources
Image: Atlas customer-pilot platform (official Boston Dynamics image during customer-pilot phase). Documents: 'Atlas product and specifications reference' (OFFICIAL spec sheet) — Boston Dynamics reference covering Atlas dimensions, payload, endurance, sensing, environmental rating, autonomy and enterprise integration.
Deployments
COMMERCIAL ROLLOUT (5 Jan 2026) — Hyundai Robotics Metaplant Application Center; Google DeepMind: Boston Dynamics named Hyundai RMAC and Google DeepMind as recipients of Atlas fleets scheduled to ship during 2026. Environment: United States. Product/scope: Atlas / Hyundai RMAC and Google DeepMind.
Operations
PRODUCTION CAPACITY / CAPACITY EXPANSION (5 Jan 2026): Hyundai Motor Group said it aims to establish a scalable production system capable of manufacturing 30,000 robot units annually by 2028 for Atlas deployment across industrial sites. Metric: 30,000 robots/year. Scope: Atlas production system / Hyundai Motor Group value network. Facility: Hyundai Motor Group robotics facility. Geography: United States.
Supply
Verified supply links: 2 product-specific links, 0 platform-level, 2 layers (Actuation, Perception). Actuation: Hyundai Mobis -> Boston Dynamics, agreed to supply Atlas actuators for mass production, Confirmed, High verified. Perception: LG Innotek -> Boston Dynamics, developing vision-sensing components for Atlas, Confirmed, High verified.