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It’s readying to accelerate nan commercialization of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot, Bloomberg says.
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Hyundai is preparing to get Softbank's remaining liking connected Boston Dynamics, according to Bloomberg. The Korean automaker purchased an 80 percent stake connected the robotics institution backmost successful 2020, while Softbank retained a 20 percent stake. Hyundai is now reportedly reviewing its contractual authorities and obligations earlier snapping up Softbank's remaining 9.9 percent liking weighted astir astatine $325 million. If nan woody pushes through, Hyundai will have full ownership of Boston Dynamics.
As Bloomberg notes, nan acquisition could beryllium a monolithic windfall for Hyundai, arsenic companies move towards nan improvement of physical AI products. If and erstwhile it gets afloat power of Boston Dynamics, Hyundai intends to build an end-to-end AI robotics chain. "Through this integrated approach, nan group intends to accelerate nan development, validation and commercialization of Physical AI technologies and robotics solutions," Hyundai told Bloomberg successful a statement.
The company's plans halfway astir Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot. At CES earlier this year, nan robotics patient presented a production-ready type of nan instrumentality aft years of testing it and moreover forcing it to dance successful its videos. More recently, Atlas made an appearance astatine nan FIFA World Cup, stepping down nan subordinate passageway and handing complete nan lucifer shot to a referee.
Hyundai is building and continuing nan improvement of Atlas pinch NVIDIA and Google DeepMind arsenic its partners. It's hoping to commencement producing Atlas astatine its works successful Georgia sometime successful 2028 and to yet manufacture arsenic galore arsenic 30,000 humanoid machines each year. To commencement with, Atlas robots will return connected elemental tasks, specified arsenic logistics and welding, but Boston Dynamics expects them to beryllium utilized for much analyzable manufacturing and constituent assembly processes by 2030.
