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Boston Dynamics is a robotics company founded 1992, based in United States, developing 11 robots primarily in the Quadruped category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Boston Dynamics has no confirmed funding round on file and has 8 deployments on record, 1 maker-verified.
Shipped
8deployments on record
1 maker-verified · on 2 robots
- Oswego County· Spotbostondynamics.com ↗
- Aker BP — Skarv installation, North Sea· Norway· Spotcognite.com ↗
- Bakersfield police· United States· Spotbakersfieldnow.com ↗
- FIFA World Cup 2026 venues· Multiple· Spotinterestingengineering.com ↗
- Hyundai Motor· United States· Atlaskedglobal.com ↗
- Hyundai Motor Group· United States· Atlaskoreaherald.com ↗
+2 more on record
Also cited
- U.S. Department of Defense· 2019defense.gov ↗
- MIT· 2018mit.edu ↗
Used by
Named in a public source that did not say which model
- Wichita City Council· United Stateskake.com
- Kia· United Stateschosun.com
- Massachusetts state police· United Statesmodernghana.com
- Coca-Cola Europacific Partners UK· United Kingdomfoodmanufacture.co.uk
- FIFA· Qatarmjengohub.co.ke
- Copper One Minediscoveryalert.com
+3 more
Boston Dynamics builds advanced robots that perform complex tasks in real-world environments, enabling safer and more efficient operations across industries.
Boston Dynamics designs and manufactures dynamic robots including Spot (a four-legged mobile robot), Atlas (a humanoid robot), and BigDog. Their products are used by defense agencies, research institutions, and industrial operators for scouting, surveying, and logistics. Key differentiators include advanced mobility, SLAM navigation, and real-time adaptability. The company operates primarily in the US with global deployments.
Active products
11
RoboIndex
79.76
RoboScore 71.66 + Momentum 8.10
Price range
$74.5K – $150K
3 of 11 priced
Company facts
- Legal name
- Boston Dynamics, Inc. (Hyundai Motor Group subsidiary)
- HQ
- Waltham, United States
- Founded
- 1992 · 34 yrs
- Employees
- 1,000
- Website
- www.bostondynamics.com
- View profile ↗
RoboScore
71.66 RoboScore + 8.10 Momentum· Very strong evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
Milestones
Acquired by Google X
Press coverage
- Boston Dynamics gave its dog-like robot a charging dock and an arm
PopSci · Mar 2021
- See Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dog play jump rope and pick up laundry
CNET · May 2021
- See Spot Run: Boston Dynamics' Latest Robotic Creation
HeroX · Dec 2019
In the news
8 events · last 90 days
+8.10momentumof 15 maxBD’s Vmax 160 Pharmacy Robot Lands First U.S. Deployment at Fairview
In the news
8 events · last 90 days
Why Boston Dynamics has been in the news, across 98 outlets — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
Public loss record
US makers file into registers that compel reporting — device adverse events to the FDA, driverless crashes to NHTSA, workplace deaths to OSHA. A maker with no record here has genuinely not had one filed against it.
Active products by Boston Dynamics
11 shown| # | Category | Key specs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Spot | Quadruped | Payload 32 kg·Runtime 1.5 hr | $74.5K | 2015 | 78.2 |
| 2 |  | Atlas HD | Humanoid | Height 1.90 m·Weight 90 kg | $150K | 2016 | 68.0 |
| 3 |  | LittleDog | Quadruped | Payload 5 kg·Runtime 1.8 hr | — | 2019 | 67.7 |
| 4 |  | Handle | Warehouse AMR | Payload 30 kg·Runtime 4 hr | — | 2019 | 59.4 |
| 5 |  | Spot Arm | Cobot | Payload 11 kg·Reach 984 mm | — | — | 55.4 |
| 6 |  | Atlas | Humanoid | Height 1.75 m·DOF 56 DOF | — | 2025 | 55.0 |
| 7 |  | Sandflea | Research | Payload 50 kg·Top speed 1.5 m/s | — | 2012 | 43.2 |
| 8 |  | Wildcat | Quadruped | Payload 30 kg·Runtime 4 hr | — | 2011 | 42.3 |
| 9 |  | LS3 | Research | Payload 181 kg·Top speed 3 m/s | — | 2010 | 42.0 |
| 10 |  | RiSE | Research | Top speed 0.3 m/s | — | 2006 | 42.0 |
| 11 |  | Petman | Research | Payload 50 kg·Top speed 1.8 m/s | — | 2009 | 41.6 |
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