HumanoidBoston Dynamics2024US
Atlas (electric)
All-electric successor to the hydraulic Atlas with continuous-rotation joints. Product version shown at CES in Jan 2026; production started and 2026 units are committed to Hyundai RMAC and Google DeepMind.
Difficulty index
10.5/13| Class | humanoid | +5 |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | unknown · midpoint | +1.5 |
| DOF | 56 DOF | +3 |
| Parts | unknown · midpoint | +1 |
Top of the ladder. This robot lives on the humanoid domains.
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Full spec sheet and comparisons
humanoidrobot.build/bostondynamics/atlas
Closed hardware; no public CAD or BOM.
humanoidrobots.training/bostondynamics/atlas
No public URDF or MJCF.
Specimen photographs
5 items
Via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).Damian B Oh, via Wikimedia Commons · CC-BY-SA-4.0 · source 
Via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).Damian B Oh, via Wikimedia Commons · CC-BY-SA-4.0 · source All New Atlas | Boston DynamicsBoston Dynamics · official video, embedded · source Atlas | Product Features | Boston DynamicsBoston Dynamics · official video, embedded · source Atlas Goes Hands OnBoston Dynamics · official video, embedded · source
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Spec card
8/13 known- Degrees of freedom
- 56
- Height
- 150 cm
- Mass
- 89 kg
- Payload
- 50 kg
- Runtime
- 240 min
- Price
- not for sale
- Actuators
- Electric; actuators supplied by Hyundai Mobis
- Sensors
- 360-degree cameras; tactile-sensing hands
Not in the registry: speed, battery, bom total, part count, compute. Left blank rather than guessed.
What you learn building it
- +Whole-body control
- +Dozens of actuators on one bus
- +Balance and fall handling
- +Safe bring-up of a full-size machine
Openness
- not publicCAD
- not publicBOM
- not publicFirmware
- not publicSim model
- not publicSoftware
- not publicPolicies
Score 0/100 computed from what is public: CAD 25, BOM 20, sim 20, firmware 15, software 10, policies 10.
Repos & models
Build it
Closed hardware; no public CAD or BOM.humanoidrobot.build/bostondynamics/atlas · Closed hardware; no public CAD or BOM.
Simulate
humanoidrobots.training/bostondynamics/atlas
No public URDF or MJCF.
Next rung
None. This is the top. Find people building it on humanoidrobots.team.
This is the top of the ladder.
NoteHyundai targets ~30,000 units/yr capacity by 2028 and deployment at its Georgia Metaplant. Specs from Automate.org CES 2026 coverage.
Sources
- [1]Boston Dynamics - new Atlaschecked 2026-09-24
- [2]Automate.org - CES 2026 productionchecked 2026-09-24
- [3]Hyundai CES 2026 releasechecked 2026-09-24