Boston Dynamics announced on the 21st (local time) that it has newly established and begun operating the “Robotics Meta-Plant Application Center (RMAC)” within the site of Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) in the state of Georgia in the United States.

The newly built RMAC will be used as a test space to precisely verify on-site adaptability of the next-generation humanoid robot “Atlas” before its deployment to complete vehicle production processes. In an environment designed to mirror the actual production line, Atlas is being trained in core tasks required on manufacturing sites, such as preparing for parts transport and arranging components in a prescribed order.

Boston Dynamics plans to expand Atlas’s application area to the parts assembly stage by 2030 and ultimately deploy it in high-load processes that require handling highly repetitive tasks or heavy objects.

In connection with this, Hyundai Motor Group plans to sequentially introduce approximately 25,000 units of Atlas to Hyundai Motor and Kia sites in Korea and overseas over the coming years. In addition, it is pursuing the establishment of a dedicated manufacturing facility in the United States capable of mass-producing 30,000 robots per year.

RMAC, which entered full operation after a pilot run in June, will be relocated next year to a separate site within the HMGMA area and expanded to a size about ten times its current scale.

While focusing on verification for mass-production field deployment through RMAC, Boston Dynamics also plans to expand the application scope of Atlas by continuing consultations with customers in a wide range of industries—including manufacturing, aerospace, semiconductors, logistics, food, and life sciences—where the quadruped robot “Spot” and the logistics robot “Stretch” are already in use. From 2027, the company intends to diversify data collection tasks to significantly enhance the level of autonomous learning by its robots.

Zak Zajaczkowski, Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO) of Boston Dynamics, said, “Through collaboration with Hyundai Motor Group, we are taking the lead in the field of physical AI applicable to industrial sites. We will streamline the supply chain, manufacturing, and verification processes for Atlas to build a production environment where humans and robots can safely coexist.”

Meanwhile, Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics will release a documentary titled “The Robotics Race: On the Front Lines” on the 30th, produced in collaboration with Bloomberg Media Studios. The film covers Atlas’s actual process training at RMAC and performance verification based on real-time data, and will be shown on the official website and Bloomberg channels.

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