Hyundai's 35,000 striking workers just forced the first real test of who controls humanoid ...

Hyundai's 35,000 unionised workers have escalated strikes ahead of the company's planned deployment of Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robots, demanding prior consent rights over automation rather than waiting until robots are already on the factory floor. The dispute signals a broader shift: labour is demanding contractual control over deployment of humanoid systems before they enter production, not after.

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