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Hyundai Trains Atlas for Soccer as Union Blocks It From the Factory Robotics

Hyundai Trains Atlas for Soccer as Union Blocks It From the Factory

Hyundai uploaded a 'School of Football' video on May 25 showing Boston Dynamics' Atlas studying World Cup footage and kicking a ball. It is the second Atlas spot under the April 'Next Starts Now' campaign with Son Heung-min — and the same Atlas the Korean Metal Workers' Union has refused to allow into any Hyundai plant without an agreement.

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#hyundai#boston-dynamics#atlas
Boston Dynamics, May 18 Tech Blog: Atlas Learned To Carry A 110-Pound Fridge It Had Never Seen Via 「Zero-Shot Sim-To-Real Transfer」 — Trained On 50–70 lbs In GPU-Parallel RL Simulation, Generalised Past 100 With No Retraining, Whole-Body Proprioception, Six Weeks From January Production Debut. May 22 Footnote: OSHA Has No Regulation For Any Of This, ISO 25785-1 Standard Still Two Years Out, Hyundai's 25,000-Unit Order Lands Inside The Gap Robotics

Boston Dynamics, May 18 Tech Blog: Atlas Learned To Carry A 110-Pound Fridge It Had Never Seen Via 「Zero-Shot Sim-To-Real Transfer」 — Trained On 50–70 lbs In GPU-Parallel RL Simulation, Generalised Past 100 With No Retraining, Whole-Body Proprioception, Six Weeks From January Production Debut. May 22 Footnote: OSHA Has No Regulation For Any Of This, ISO 25785-1 Standard Still Two Years Out, Hyundai's 25,000-Unit Order Lands Inside The Gap

Boston Dynamics' May 18 tech blog explained the training method behind Atlas lifting 110+ pounds: GPU-parallel RL, proprioception, zero-shot transfer from 50–70 lb simulation to physical loads it never trained on. May 22 follow-on: no OSHA rule applies, ISO 25785-1 won't publish before 2026 or 2027. The 25,000-unit Hyundai order arrives inside that gap.

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DHL Supply Chain CIO Sally Miller Names the Three Vendors Running 8,000 Robots Across 2,800 Global Sites — Locus, Boston Dynamics, Robust AI — And Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: 「Does It Reduce Our Dependency on Labor? Yes, It Does. If Anyone Says Otherwise, I Don't Think They Are Being Truthful.」 — Fortune, May 20, 2026 Robotics

DHL Supply Chain CIO Sally Miller Names the Three Vendors Running 8,000 Robots Across 2,800 Global Sites — Locus, Boston Dynamics, Robust AI — And Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: 「Does It Reduce Our Dependency on Labor? Yes, It Does. If Anyone Says Otherwise, I Don't Think They Are Being Truthful.」 — Fortune, May 20, 2026

DHL's global CIO breaks the robotics-deployment script the industry has been using for two years and tells Fortune what the executive memo always omits: yes, fewer jobs, and the people left actually like it.

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#dhl#locus-robotics#boston-dynamics
Hyundai Tells JPMorgan, May 19: 25,000 Boston-Dynamics Atlas Humanoids Across Hyundai + Kia Plants, 30,000-Unit Annual Production Capacity by 2028, 300,000 Actuator Units Per Year Onshored to U.S. Facilities — Georgia Metaplant Lights Up in 2028, Kia Georgia 2029, Korean Union 「Demanding Labor Agreements First」 Robotics

Hyundai Tells JPMorgan, May 19: 25,000 Boston-Dynamics Atlas Humanoids Across Hyundai + Kia Plants, 30,000-Unit Annual Production Capacity by 2028, 300,000 Actuator Units Per Year Onshored to U.S. Facilities — Georgia Metaplant Lights Up in 2028, Kia Georgia 2029, Korean Union 「Demanding Labor Agreements First」

At a JPMorgan IR session on May 19, Hyundai put a number on its humanoid program: 25,000 Atlas robots across Hyundai/Kia plants, 30K-unit annual production capacity by 2028, 300K US-made actuators per year. The Korean union has already demanded a labor agreement.

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#hyundai#boston-dynamics#atlas
Apptronik Just Hired Waymo's Product Chief, Boston Dynamics' Services Chief, and an Amazon AI VP in One Press Release. The Tell Is Not the Hires — It's the Robot They Stopped Talking About. Robotics

Apptronik Just Hired Waymo's Product Chief, Boston Dynamics' Services Chief, and an Amazon AI VP in One Press Release. The Tell Is Not the Hires — It's the Robot They Stopped Talking About.

On April 28 Apptronik dropped five executive hires from Waymo, Boston Dynamics, Amazon, iRobot, and Paramount+ — and quietly teased a new humanoid that is not Apollo. The CPO is the man who shipped Waymo's autonomous ride-hail. The SVP of Services is the man who took Spot from R&D to fleet revenue. Read together, the package is the operational scaffolding for fleets, not prototypes.

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#apptronik#daniel-chu#waymo