# Hyundai Motor Group: company

Canonical ID: `2bb0e385-b850-4e54-b2e2-0cacf4991fa3`

## Key facts

- **Scale:** Third-largest global automotive manufacturer; produces Hyundai, Kia, Genesis brands
- **Boston Dynamics acquisition:** December 2020, $880M for 80% stake; SoftBank to Hyundai; $1.1B implied valuation
- **2026 Atlas production commitment:** Entire 2026 production run to Hyundai RMAC + Google DeepMind; no external customers until 2027
- **Internal Atlas deployment target:** 25,000+ humanoid robots across Hyundai and Kia plants (83% of target 30,000-unit annual production capacity by 2028)
- **Atlas production location:** Boston Dynamics headquarters (Boston), with planned dedicated factory targeting 30,000 units/year by 2028
- **Actuator supply chain:** Hyundai Mobis (automotive-grade)
- **US investment commitment:** $26B in US operations including robotics factory
- **Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC):** Supervised training environment at Hyundai's Metaplant America facility in Savannah, Georgia, USA, where Atlas learns manufacturing tasks before factory deployment; described by Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter as a "data factory" generating the largest proprietary humanoid manufacturing skills dataset in the world
- **Strategic partnership:** Google DeepMind (Gemini Robotics foundation models for Atlas)
- **Labor friction:** Korean Metal Workers' Union has blocked Atlas factory deployment without formal labor agreement; summer 2026 contract negotiations identified as escalation point
- **CES 2026 announcement:** Production version of Atlas unveiled January 5, 2026 at Hyundai's CES media day

- **Slug:** hyundai-motor-group
- **Status:** KRX: 005380 (Korea Exchange)
- **Founded:** 1967
- **HQ:** Seoul, South Korea

## Models

- [Hyundai Flagship](/models/hyundai-motor-group-flagship.md) (robot) (id: `d5b2de54-2b1a-4a65-8729-120b58c6a10f`)

## Partnerships (1)

- [Hyundai x Boston Dynamics (deployment)](/partnerships/hyundai-boston-dynamics-deployment.md) with Boston Dynamics _deployment_

## Acquisitions (1)

- [acquired Boston Dynamics](/acquisitions/hyundai-acquires-boston-dynamics-2021.md) _majority stake_

## Supplies to

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## Sources (10)

1. **Boston Dynamics — CES 2026 product Atlas announcement** · https://bostondynamics.com/
2. **TechTimes — Hyundai Commits 25,000 Atlas Robots; Union Blocks Deployment** · https://www.techtimes.com/
3. **BGR — Hyundai Revealed Boston Dynamics' Next-Gen Humanoid Robots** · https://bgr.com/
4. **The Register — Optimus Schmoptimus, Boston Dynamics' humanoid in mass production** · https://www.theregister.com/
5. **Startup Fortune — Hyundai Is Building a Factory to Make 30,000 Atlas Robots a Year** · https://startupfortune.com/
6. **AI2.work — Boston Dynamics Ships Full Atlas Production Run to Hyundai and DeepMind** · https://ai2.work/
7. **iFactory — Boston Dynamics Atlas at Hyundai** · https://ifactoryapp.com/
8. **Hyundai Motor Group investor materials (JPMorgan Chase investor session, May 2026)** · https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/company/investor-relations
9. https://www.hyundaimotorgroup.com/en/news/CONT0000000000199186
10. https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/hyundai-pairs-up-with-yandex-spinoff-avride-to-develop-robotaxis/

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