Strengths
- ▸New electric Atlas (2024), industrial-grade humanoid
- ▸Spot quadruped, the global leader in enterprise inspection
- ▸Stretch, purpose-built box/palletizing robot for warehouses
- ▸Athletic Intelligence, best-in-class motion control
Typical products
- ▸Atlas humanoid (Electric, 2024)
- ▸Spot quadruped (inspection)
- ▸Stretch (warehouse / palletizing)
- ▸Orbit fleet management software
Flagship series
Atlas ElectricSpot EnterpriseStretch
About Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992 in Waltham, Massachusetts as a spin-off from the MIT Leg Lab. Ownership history: Google (2013) → SoftBank (2017) → Hyundai Motor Group (2021), which still owns them.
Three commercial products
1. Spot, Quadruped inspection
- Starts at USD 75,000 for the base unit + USD 10K–30K for payload packages
- Used in power plants, oil & gas, construction, security patrol
- Customers: BP, Shell, ENI, Fluor, Hyundai, Ontario Power Generation
- Competes with Unitree B2 (10× cheaper) and Deep Robotics X30
2. Stretch, Warehouse / palletizing (the one most relevant to manufacturing)
- Mobile container-unloading and palletizing robot
- Vacuum gripper + mobile base + 7-DOF arm
- Handles up to 23 kg at 800 boxes/hour
- Deployed at DHL (Atlanta), Gap (Tennessee), Mars (multiple sites)
- Price ~USD 200–300K including software subscription
3. Atlas Electric (2024+)
- April 2024: announced the all-electric Atlas (retiring hydraulic version)
- Pilot deployment at Hyundai factories (Korea) starting 2025
- Full bipedal, faster and more agile than the legacy hydraulic Atlas
- Not commercially available, currently sold only to development partners
For Thai factories
- Spot, order through Hyundai Thailand or regional distributors. Typical use case: power-plant inspection at SCG, Banpu, PTT
- Stretch, not yet available in Thailand (focused on US and EU 3PL first)
- Atlas, still R&D / pilot phase
Humanoid comparison
| BD Atlas | Unitree H1 | Figure 02 | AgiBot Raise A1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Not commercial | USD 90K | N/A (pilot) | USD 100K+ |
| Degrees of freedom | ~28 | 27 | ~35 | ~30 |
| Primary focus | Athletic intelligence | Mass market | BMW factory pilot | SAIC EV line |
| Ownership | Hyundai | Independent | VC-backed | VC-backed |