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Hyundai is planning a switch to a 48-volt electrical architecture for all its cars and robots, following in the footsteps of ...
Hyundai, which already has a pilot program with Boston Dynamics technology at a Kia brand car plant in South Korea, bought a controlling 80% stake in the company from Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp ...
In 2021, Hyundai acquired Boston Dynamics from SoftBank for $880 million, marking a significant step in its robotics-focused expansion. Enhancing operations with Spot and Atlas robots for factory ...
Hyundai Motor-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) entered into a research partnership last week, in a bid to replicate Tesla Inc.’s TSLA progress with its ...
Hyundai wants to work with German robotics company Neura Robotics to make their robots suitable for heavy and risky work in ...
In 2021 Hyundai Motor Company paid $1.1 billion to acquire 80% of robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics, famous for videos of its dog-shaped bot named Spot and its running and jumping humanoid Atlas.
Boston Dynamics, majority owned by Toyota Motor’s rival Hyundai Motor Corporation, is known for its humanoids with capabilities “from extreme mobility to bimanual manipulation”.
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DARPA was a key supporter in the Hyundai-owned company’s earliest days. Notably, however, those early Boston Dynamics dogs were designed to transport payloads, rather than mounting weapons.