Boston Dynamics, Google reunite on next-gen Atlas humanoid

You can sell Boston Dynamics, but you can’t fully quit it. Nearly a decade after Google sold the robotics company to SoftBank, the two are working together again, announcing at CES 2026 that DeepMind will help make Atlas smarter with its Gemini Robotics foundation models.

The event also featured Boston Dynamics’ first-ever public demo of Atlas, the debut of a productized version of the humanoid, plans for a robot training center, and a roadmap to deploy Atlas in Hyundai factories worldwide.