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Hyundai and Boston Dynamics Unveil Humanoid Robot Atlas at CES2026

The company says a product version is already in production and will be deployed by 2028 at Hyundai's facility in Georgia.

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Hyundai and Boston Dynamics Unveil Humanoid Robot Atlas at CES2026
Photo of Zachary Jackowski, vice president and general manager of Atlas at Boston Dynamics, on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, by Abbie Parr/AP

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5, 2026 (AP) – Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time Monday at the CES tech showcase, ratcheting up a competition with Tesla and other rivals to build robots that look like people and do things that people do.

“For the first time ever in public, please welcome Atlas to the stage,” said Boston Dynamics' Zachary Jackowski as a life-sized robot with two arms and two legs picked itself up from the floor at a Las Vegas hotel ballroom.

It then fluidly walked around the stage for several minutes, sometimes waving to the crowd and swiveling its head like an owl. An engineer remotely piloted the robot from nearby for the purpose of the demonstration, though in real life Atlas will move around on its own, said Jackowski, the company’s general manager for humanoid robots.

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