Boston Dynamics is the same type of cool companies that always demos but never ships.

Skynet does suspicious purchases. The robodog may get new weapons soon.

So if three Tech companies (Boston Dynamics, Google, and Softbank), very smart ones at that, couldn't think of a way to make Atlas profitable, well for sure an automotive company should have no problem at all figuring it out.

Huh?

I mean...what evidence does the management at Hyundai have that shows them that these things aren't just YouTube stars? What teams does it have in place to start the transition from not profitable?

China is leading the world in robotics use in factories.

The new Qwen robotics suite is impressive.

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-robotsuite

Atlas wrote this article, didn't it?

This is by far the best robot available: https://clonerobotics.com/

Boston Dynamics gets passed around again

Just give it to me, I’ll monetize it.

Shame. Boston Dynamics is famous for having a “no using our machines for evil” policy. If you break it (eg mount weapons on their robots, even if you’re a government), they won’t sell to you.

Hyundai (the chaebol) has no such policy. They sell their heavy equipment to oppressive regimes to blatantly use in projects and efforts deemed illegal under international humanitarian law and by the International Court of Justice.