Boston Dynamics Names Ex-Amazon AI Chief Rohit Prasad CEO as Atlas Heads to Factories
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-10-12
Boston Dynamics appointed Rohit Prasad — the ex-Amazon executive behind Alexa and the Nova foundation models — as its first externally hired CEO, betting his large-scale AI product experience can carry Atlas from demo videos to factory floors.
- Multiple senior staff left during the transition, some citing pressure from large-scale factory deployment.
- Atlas is now training to handle auto parts at Hyundai's Georgia plant (RMAC), targeting deployment from 2028 and assembly tasks by 2030; a new four-finger gripper supports part handling and sim training, with Google DeepMind on robot foundation models and Nvidia on compute/simulation.
- Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas units across its global factories and build a US plant with 30,000 robots/year capacity.
- The real test: reliability, maintenance cost and repeat orders — the gap between viral demos and industrial procurement.
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