Boston Dynamics names ex-Alexa chief Rohit Prasad as new CEO amid Atlas manufacturing push
lukas_m_ziegler · x · 2026-10-08
Boston Dynamics appointed Rohit Prasad, former SVP and Head Scientist for Alexa and AGI at Amazon, as its new CEO. Prasad spent 12 years productizing AI at scale — building Alexa into a service in hundreds of millions of households and most recently leading Amazon's Nova foundation models.
The timing is loaded with context:
- Just opened the Robotics Metaplant Application Center at Hyundai's Georgia facility to train Atlas for automotive manufacturing
- Just unveiled a new four-fingered hand for Atlas built for sim-to-real reinforcement learning
- Plans a $100M expansion of its Waltham, Massachusetts facilities
- Hyundai completed its buyout of SoftBank's remaining stake earlier this year and now owns 100% of Boston Dynamics
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