Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot can already trot across rubble, open doors, and inspect industrial sites. Now, a research effort involving Google DeepMind is exploring whether the quadruped can learn to ...

In 2021, 60 Minutes visited the offices of robotics company Boston Dynamics and met an early model of its humanoid robot, Atlas. It could run, jump and maintain its balance when pushed. But it was ...

Boston Dynamics offers a detailed examination of Atlas, a humanoid robot engineered to perform intricate physical tasks. Atlas’s development relies on a combination of virtual simulations and ...

Hyundai Motor Group-owned Boston Dynamics Inc. unveiled its newest Atlas robot line in a public demonstration on Monday at the CES 2026 annual trade show in Las Vegas. “For the first time ever in ...

Boston Dynamics has released a new explanation of one of Atlas’s most striking behaviors. It’s an eerie, contortion-like way to get up from the ground. The motion, long visible in widely shared videos ...

Google’s AI division DeepMind is pushing further into robotics after hiring a former executive from leading robot maker Boston Dynamics. Aaron Saunders, who served as the chief technology officer at ...

Together, Boston Dynamics, Hyundai, and Google aim to prove that humanoid robots are a viable technology for real-world applications. Can they succeed Among the bigger stories at the Consumer ...

If someone was to tell you that Hyundai was having a big press conference at CES, the first thing that would come to mind would likely be cars. But, at CES 2026, Hyundai's big event on Monday was all ...

Boston Dynamics has been working on the Atlas robot since 2013, and it's come a long way since. The key? Humanoid robots shouldn't copy human anatomy exactly, said Boston Dynamics' CEO Robert Playter ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. For decades, ...

The Boston Dynamics SpotMini robot. The secretive robotics firm Boston Dynamics has spent decades designing robots that can jump, gallop or prowl like animals. (Boston Dynamics) The Boston Dynamics ...