In 2021, 60 Minutes visited the offices of robotics company Boston Dynamics and met an early model of its humanoid robot, Atlas. It could run, jump and maintain its balance when pushed. But it was ...
Boston Dynamics today opened commercial sales of Spot, its quadruped robot that can climb stairs and traverse rough terrain. Businesses can purchase the Spot Explorer developer kit for $74,500 at shop ...
Hyundai's Boston Dynamics made big news about robots at CES 2026. On Jan. 5, Boston Dynamics unveiled its fully electric humanoid robot called Atlas and said it will begin production immediately. The ...
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 ...
Hyundai Motor Group-owned Boston Dynamics Inc. unveiled its newest Atlas robot line in a public demonstration on Monday at the CES 2026 annual trade show in Las Vegas. “For the first time ever in ...
If someone was to tell you that Hyundai was having a big press conference at CES, the first thing that would come to mind would likely be cars. But, at CES 2026, Hyundai's big event on Monday was all ...
Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. For decades, ...
Boston Dynamics has been working on the Atlas robot since 2013, and it's come a long way since. The key? Humanoid robots shouldn't copy human anatomy exactly, said Boston Dynamics' CEO Robert Playter ...
Hyundai recently announced plans to build 30,000 robots per year. The Atlas robot could start working in Hyundai factories as soon as 2028. Hyundai's Boston Dynamics made big news about robots at CES ...
Not everybody agrees that replicating the four-limbed, bipedal shape of a human should be replicated in robot form. For one, walking with two feet is inherently less stable than four, nevermind a set ...
As humanoid robotics approach commercialization, developers are still working to improve navigation, manipulation, and skills learning.