Atlas 2024
All-electric humanoid robot for industrial work
Price
Price not publicly disclosed
Record checked Jul 8, 2026
Key facts
Values reflect the public record
- Height
- 1.9 mManufacturer confirmed
- Weight
- 90 kgManufacturer confirmed
- Payload
- 50 kg (instant) / 30 kg (sustained)Manufacturer confirmed
- Degrees of freedom
- 56Manufacturer confirmed
- Runtime
- 4 hrManufacturer confirmed
- Max speed
- No public data documented
Canonical robot record
Overview
Atlas is Boston Dynamics' all-electric humanoid robot, the successor to its earlier hydraulic research platform. Unveiled in 2024 as a fully electric machine, it is engineered to operate in real industrial settings such as warehouses and automotive factories, moving through the same workstations and using the same equipment as human staff.
The robot combines dexterous manipulation with tactile and camera-based sensing to handle a wide range of material-handling and fulfillment tasks. It is built on recent AI advances, allowing it to learn new skills quickly, adapt to dynamic environments, and operate autonomously with minimal supervision. Once one unit learns a task, that skill can be deployed across an entire fleet.
Boston Dynamics positions Atlas as enterprise-ready and integrates it with its Orbit fleet-management platform alongside its Spot and Stretch robots. The company is rolling it out to a select group of early-adopter customers, including a field-testing pilot with Hyundai on real-world sequencing tasks.
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- Spec sources
- 1 linked
- Verification
- Verified · 9/9 specs source-verified
- Deployment
- Paid Deployment
- Last verified
- Jul 8, 2026
Key Features
- Fully electric humanoid design built to operate within existing human workstations and equipment
- Dexterous manipulation with tactile fingers and palm plus 360-degree camera-based vision
- AI-driven task learning that can be shared and deployed across an entire fleet
- Continuous operation via autonomous navigation to a charging station and self-swapping of its own battery
- Fenceless safety system with human detection, plus integration with the Orbit fleet-management platform
Specifications
Grouped technical data with source detail available on demand.
9 documented values
Environment
| IP Rating | IP67Manufacturer confirmedVerified Jul 8, 2026 Boston Dynamics (opens in a new tab) |
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Mechanics
| Degrees of Freedom | 56Manufacturer confirmedVerified Jul 8, 2026 Boston Dynamics (opens in a new tab) |
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| Locomotion | BipedalManufacturer confirmedVerified Jul 8, 2026 Boston Dynamics (opens in a new tab) |
Performance
| Payload Capacity | 50 kg (instant) / 30 kg (sustained)Manufacturer confirmedVerified Jul 8, 2026 Boston Dynamics (opens in a new tab) |
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| Reach | 2.3 mManufacturer confirmedVerified Jul 8, 2026 Boston Dynamics (opens in a new tab) |
Physical
| Height | 1.9 mManufacturer confirmedVerified Jul 8, 2026 Boston Dynamics (opens in a new tab) |
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| Weight | 90 kgManufacturer confirmedVerified Jul 8, 2026 Boston Dynamics (opens in a new tab) |
Power
| Runtime | 4 hrManufacturer confirmedVerified Jul 8, 2026 Boston Dynamics (opens in a new tab) |
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Sensing
| Sensors | Tactile sensing, 360° camera view (machine vision)Manufacturer confirmedVerified Jul 8, 2026 Boston Dynamics (opens in a new tab) |
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Deployment and commercial evidence
Deployment evidence
Electric New Era for Atlas — Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics retired the hydraulic Atlas and unveiled a fully electric version in April 2024, beginning pilot testing with Hyundai Motor Group.
Integration & SDK
- ROS support
- Not confirmed
- SDK available
- Not confirmed
- API docs
- —
- Supported platforms
- —
Support & service
Regions
—Support details not available
Evidence & changelog
Sources behind this record and material corrections made over time.
Sources
- Boston Dynamics - tranche-4 verification (opens in a new tab) · Boston Dynamics — cites IP Rating, Battery Life, Payload Capacity, Reach, Degrees of Freedom, Weight, Height, Sensors, Locomotion
Record changelog
- Sensors: Depth cameras, machine vision system changed to Tactile sensing, 360° camera view (machine vision) · Jul 8, 2026
tranche-4 verification (corrected): BD's published sensing spec is 'Tactile and 360° camera view'. The record omits tactile sensing and asserts 'depth cameras', which BD does not publish for electric
- Payload Capacity: 50 kg changed to 50 kg (instant) / 30 kg (sustained) · Jul 8, 2026
tranche-4 verification (corrected): BD publishes TWO weight-capacity figures: 50 kg (110 lbs) instant and 30 kg (66 lbs) sustained. A bare '50 kg' launders the instantaneous figure into a total - the
Media
Manufacturer
Leading developer of advanced mobile robots including Spot, Stretch, and Atlas for industrial and research applications.
- Headquarters
- Waltham, MA, USA
- Founded
- 1992
