{"city":"Waltham","name":"Boston Dynamics","slug":"boston-dynamics","facts":[{"date":"2026-09-18","type":"ownership_change","value":"Boston Dynamics spun out Dynamic Creatures for robot entertainment","source":"www.humanoidsdaily.com — 2026-09-18"},{"date":"2026-09-16","type":"setback","value":"Boston Dynamics IPO unlikely in 2027","source":"www.humanoidsdaily.com — 2026-09-16"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"setback","value":"2027 IPO prospects tempered by limited Atlas deployment and continued losses","source":"humanoid.guide"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"setback","value":"Accumulated losses from 2021 through 2025","source":"humanoid.guide"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"setback","value":"2025 loss","source":"humanoid.guide"},{"date":"2026-09-14","type":"ownership_change","value":"Hyundai plans to acquire SoftBank's remaining approximately 10% stake in Boston Dynamics","source":"humanoid.guide"}],"peers":[{"name":"Tesla","rank":1,"slug":"tesla","score":"91.5"},{"name":"Unitree","rank":2,"slug":"unitree","score":"89"},{"name":"AgiBot","rank":4,"slug":"agibot","score":"88.5"},{"name":"Figure","rank":5,"slug":"figure","score":"88"},{"name":"DexForce","rank":9,"slug":"dexforce","score":"85"},{"name":"Hexagon","rank":16,"slug":"hexagon","score":"81"}],"stage":null,"state":"Massachusetts","aliases":[],"country":"United States","domains":[{"why":"Boston Dynamics is developing Atlas as a general-purpose humanoid for industrial deployment, including automotive production lines and Hyundai manufacturing facilities.","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":6,"tier":"member","layer":"Systems","total":87,"domain":"Humanoids","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":10,"progress":9,"firepower":10,"commercial":4,"deployment":8,"production":6,"technology":10},"edition":"November 2026","segment":"General-purpose"},{"why":"Boston Dynamics sells Spot, Stretch and Atlas robotic systems to industrial and enterprise customers for inspection, material handling and manufacturing automation.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":67,"domain":"Robotics","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":7,"position":8,"progress":9,"firepower":1,"commercial":5,"deployment":9,"production":9,"technology":6},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-10-27","header":"Boston Dynamics is preparing a Korean supplier network for Atlas production at a reported 10,000-robot scale","outlet":"Humanoids Daily"},{"date":"2026-10-26","header":"Boston Dynamics is standing by a deal to provide ICE with four modified Spot robots despite an employee petition.","outlet":"Humanoids Daily"},{"date":"2026-10-22","header":"Google DeepMind is building a new robotics research lab in Cambridge for its hardware team.","outlet":"Robot News"},{"date":"2026-10-15","header":"Boston Dynamics released a video showing prototype operations for its Atlas humanoid robot.","outlet":"Interesting Engineering"},{"date":"2026-10-14","header":"Boston Dynamics builds an Atlas humanoid in roughly one day using in-house machining and rapid assembly.","outlet":"Humanoids Daily"},{"date":"2026-10-13","header":"Google DeepMind is building a robotics lab in the Boston area.","outlet":"The AI Insider"}],"website":"bostondynamics.com","category":"Robotics · Systems","categories":[{"name":"Industrial & logistics","domain":"Humanoids","parent":"Humanoids · Systems"},{"name":"Mobile robots & AMRs","domain":"Robotics","parent":"Robotics · Systems"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:32:12.831+00:00","facts_total":105,"positioning":"Boston Dynamics (Hyundai-owned) makes Spot (1,500+ across 40+ countries) and Stretch (at DHL, Maersk, H&M, and others), with about $130M in 2025 revenue across the two, and began Atlas humanoid production in January 2026. All of 2026 Atlas production is committed to just two customers, Hyundai RMAC and Google DeepMind (third-party pilots from 2027), and Hyundai Mobis will supply next-gen Atlas actuators as part of a Hyundai group plan to deploy tens of thousands of robots. Hyundai became sole owner in July 2026 ($325M for SoftBank's 9.65%, ~$3.3B implied), and CEO Robert Playter retired in February 2026, leaving a leadership gap analysts have flagged.","sub_category":null,"signals_total":325,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/boston-dynamics","title":"Boston Dynamics · humanoids, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Boston Dynamics is developing Atlas as a general-purpose humanoid for industrial deployment, including automotive production lines and Hyundai manufacturing facilities. Humanoids 100 rank 6 (score 87) 325 signals and 105 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}