Boston Dynamics · industrial humanoid
Atlas
electric prototype
All-electric successor to the hydraulic Atlas, revealed a day after the old robot was retired, with a ring-lit head and planetary roller-screw actuators. It served as the development prototype for the 2026 product version.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
Not for sale: 2024 prototype superseded by the product Atlas (see boston-dynamics-atlas-product-2026).
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Why it matters
Replaced the famous hydraulic Atlas with an all-electric design whose joints rotate beyond human range.
Real-world use
Testing with Hyundai announced at reveal.
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Boston DynamicsCompany · founded 1992 · Waltham, Massachusetts, United StatesOwned by Hyundai Motor Group since June 2021 (80% stake bought from SoftBank for about $880M; SoftBank kept about 20%).
What it has been shown doing
5 of 14 skills we track, each from a public video or report. Demos can be staged or remote-controlled; we say so when the source does.
- Pick & sortmoves engine covers between supplier bins and a sequencing dolly; Boston Dynamics says all motions generated autonomously · Oct 2024 · singularityhub.com
- Gets up after a fallreveal video shows Atlas rising from lying flat on the floor to standing · Apr 2024 · spectrum.ieee.org
- RunBoston Dynamics/RAI video shows Atlas walking, running and crawling with RL policies · Mar 2025 · heise.de
- Jump & acrobaticssame video shows cartwheel, handstand, roll and breakdance moves · Mar 2025 · heise.de
- Runs on its ownengine-cover sequencing video stated to be fully autonomous, not teleoperated · Oct 2024 · singularityhub.com
Not shown yet:AssembleFoldKitchenToolsFineStairsTerrainCarryOn site
Public attention
How much public attention Atlas (electric prototype) gets, from open data.
- 2,736 views of its Wikipedia article in the last 90 days (Atlas (robot))
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs
- Chip
- Jetson AGX Thor (T5000) (NVIDIA)Boston Dynamics says the electric Atlas is being built around Jetson Thor to run multimodal AI models with its whole-body controllers.
- AI model
- Boston Dynamics / TRI Large Behavior Model for Atlas (Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute)
- Actuators & motors
- Fully electric actuation; Boston Dynamics describes the new Atlas as stronger and having a broader range of motion than previous generations (Boston Dynamics, 2024).
- Hands
- Several interchangeable gripper variations under test for different customer needs.
- Sensors & vision
- Not published for the 2024 prototype; ring light around the head.
- Compute
- Not published.
- Battery & power
- Not published.
- AI & software
- Reinforcement learning and computer vision; Orbit fleet software integration planned.
- Other details
- Joints rotate beyond human range of motion; stronger than the last hydraulic Atlas.
Lineage
Every Boston Dynamics humanoid in order.
PETMAN2009Retired
Atlas (DRC hydraulic Atlas)2013Retired
Atlas (next generation)2016Retired- Atlas (electric prototype)2024Prototype
Atlas (product version)2026Pilot use
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- Not for sale2024 prototype superseded by the product Atlas (see boston-dynamics-atlas-product-2026).
- Sold or delivered
- Not sold; prototype tested with Hyundai as first partner.
- Where it is sold or used
- United States
- Customers and pilots
- Hyundai Motor Group (testing partner, 2024)
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Electric Atlas revealed
Boston Dynamics introduced an all-electric Atlas a day after retiring the hydraulic version.
WCAX - Hydraulic Atlas retired
Boston Dynamics retired hydraulic Atlas after more than a decade of humanoid research and introduced a fully electric successor.
Boston Dynamics
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | Atlas (electric prototype)Boston Dynamics |  MATRIX-1Matrix RoboticsSame job: industrial · Both walk · Both in development |  Forerunner K1Kepler Exploration RoboticsSame job: industrial · Both walk · Both in development |  T1 (T1 Pro)Sichuan Tianlian Robot (TLIBOT, formerly Sichuan Fude Robot)Same job: industrial · Both walk · Both in development |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2024-04-17 | 2024-12-26 | 2024-01 | 2024-04 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype |
| Height | — | 180 cm | 178 cm | 160 cm |
| Weight | — | 67 kg | 85 kg | 43 kg |
| Joints | — | — | 40 | 41 |
| Speed | — | 7.6 km/h | — | — |
| Payload | — | 10 kg | — | 10 kg |
| Battery | — | 5 h | — | — |
| Price | — | — | $20,000 | — |
Sources
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