RoboAtlas Summary
Boston Dynamics develops and deploys highly mobile robots for difficult industrial and safety challenges.
Last verified: 2026.09.12
Overview
Products listed
7
Flagship product
Spot
Primary scenarios
Industrial manufacturing · Logistics and warehousing
Commercial progress
Commercial delivery
Official positioning
The company develops robots with advanced mobility, dexterity and intelligence to reduce dangerous, repetitive and physically difficult work.
Hardware scope
Its public portfolio includes Spot, a quadruped mobile robot; Stretch, a warehouse case-handling robot; and Atlas, an electric humanoid robot under commercialization.
Intelligence scope
Boston Dynamics combines robot hardware with perception, autonomy and fleet-management software for enterprise deployments.
Go-to-market
The company serves industrial plants, construction sites, distribution centers, warehouses and enterprise automation customers; Spot and Stretch are commercially available.
Products
Active products
Discontinued / historical
People
Marc Raibert
Founder
Founder of Boston Dynamics; the company history records that he spun the company out of the MIT Leg Lab in 1992.
Funding history
Hyundai controlling-interest acquisition
USD 1.1B valuation; financial terms undisclosed
Hyundai Motor Group (80%); SoftBank Group (20% retained)
SoftBank acquisition
Undisclosed
SoftBank Group (via subsidiary)
Google acquisition
Undisclosed
Google
Timeline
- Company founded
Boston Dynamics founded
Marc Raibert spun Boston Dynamics out of the MIT Leg Lab in 1992.
- Product released
BigDog
- Product released
Petman
- Product released
AlphaDog
- Funding
Google acquisition
- Product released
Spot
- Funding
SoftBank acquisition
- Funding
Hyundai controlling-interest acquisition
- Product released
Atlas
- Product released
Atlas (Electric)
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