Atlas, a humanoid robot made by robotics company Boston Dynamics, has been upgraded from a version 60 Minutes saw in 2021, with joints that can fully rotate and hands that can grip a variety of objects.

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Chinese robot manufacturer AGIBOT announced its entry into the US humanoid market, unveiling its ready-to-use embodied robots at CES 2026. The portfolio consists of three humanoid robots and a quadruped robot that can be deployed to assist humans and work in real-life scenarios and challenges.

With a pair of legs directly on the vacuum, the Roborock Saros Rover might solve the biggest limitation in robotic floor cleaning.

To drive that momentum forward, Nvidia unveiled new open Nvidia Cosmos and GR00T models during its Las Vegas keynote event on Monday. The company stated that these models are designed to enable developers to allocate less time and resources to pretraining and more to building next-generation robots.

Roborock, a Chinese robotic vacuum cleaner brand, unveiled a concept device with two legs that can climb stairs in people’s homes, a flashy example of efforts to sell ordinary consumers on the idea of home robots.

Boston Dynamics latest Atlas humanoid robot is big, strong, and increasingly smart, thanks to Google. The company has plans to ship up to 30,000 per year.

From mobile manipulators to humanoids, Boston Dynamics, Caterpillar, Franka Robots, Humanoid, LG Electronics and NEURA Robotics

For several decades, Boston Dynamics has pioneered the development of advanced robots, including humanoids and four-legged systems tested by the military as a way to carry supplies over rough terrain. The company was sold to Google in 2013 and bought by SoftBank in 2017. In 2021, Hyundai acquired a controlling stake.

Roborock is upgrading its off-roader robot lawn mower with better obstacle tracking with LiDAR vision and a bigger operating radius.

This final enterprise version of Atlas "can perform a wide array of industrial tasks," according to Boston Dynamics, and is specifically designed with consistency and reliability in mind. Atlas can work autonomously,

Boston Dynamics is an undisputed frontrunner in the race to develop humanoid robots —and now, its Atlas robot is getting to work at Hyundai. A corner of the parts warehouse at Hyundai’s Georgia factory is home to on-the-job training for Atlas.