Robot dogs dancing to K-pop and the first public appearance of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot highlight Hyundai’s CES tech showcase.

Asked whether building a robot that functions similarly to a human—only stronger, more heat resistant and less prone to fatigue—could put human jobs at risk, Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter said it likely will.

Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter believes the robotics industry is evolving out of that niche stage and into scale. Playter made the comments while on a panel at CES 2026 with some other high-profile folks,

One Massachusetts-based company just showed off their robots on America's Got Talent. On the June 10 episode of America's Got Talent, Boston Dynamics demonstrated their robots' dancing capabilities, as they performed to Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now," with ...

Hyundai admits humanoid robots in car factories will change the nature of work—but don't expect much of an impact on prices.

Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot has been impressing us for years. And the dog-like contraption has just done it again. In a video (top) released by the Massachussetts-based team this week, Spot is shown performing endless backflips with all of the skill of ...

But if you shrink that robot down, give it the ambulatory capabilities of a human and bathe the whole thing in AI, Hyundai reckons it can replace the most unreliable element of the modern assembly line: the human laborer. Enter Atlas, one of those humanoid ‘bots I mentioned up top there. As it turns out, Atlas can do more than dodge a hockey stick.