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Hyundai to Take Full Ownership of Boston Dynamics From SoftBank
Hyundai acquires SoftBank's remaining 10% stake in Boston Dynamics for ~$335m, making it a wholly owned subsidiary. Hyundai plans to deploy Atlas humanoids at its Georgia car plant from 2028, beginning with parts sequencing and expanding to component assembly by 2030.
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The Wire takeaway
If you're building robotics for factory floors, you now have one fewer buyer and one fiercer competitor. Hyundai just moved from customer to owner-operator, and when the automaker next to you calls looking for a robot, they'll compare you to the one Hyundai already owns.
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Topics: Robotics · Manufacturing Tech · Autonomous Vehicles · humanoid-robots · manufacturing-automation · supply-chain-vertical · robotics-m-and-a · factory-deployment