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Also known as BostonDynamics

engineering and robotics design company

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Boston Dynamics is an active robotics company located in Waltham, United States. The organization was established in 1992, with specific inception dates recorded as January 1, 1992, and November 6, 1992. It operates as a corporate entity within the United States.

The company employs 501 individuals and maintains a social media following of 3,410,000. Its official website is bostondynamics.com. The organization is referenced by 663 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Company type
Subsidiary
Industry
Robotics , Artificial intelligence , Automation
Founded
1992 ; 34 years ago ( 1992 )
Founder
Marc Raibert
Headquarters
Waltham, Massachusetts , United States
Number of employees
1,000
Parent
Google X (2013–2017) SoftBank Group (2017–2020) Hyundai Motor Group (2020–present)
Website
bostondynamics .com

via Wikipedia infobox

Research organization · ROR

Type
Company
Founded
1992
Location
Waltham, United States
Status
Active

GRID grid.504279.d · ISNI 0000 0004 0460 1225

Official website

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
business
Official name
Boston Dynamics
Founded by
Marc Raibert
Headquarters
Massachusetts
Parent organization
Hyundai Motor Company
Chairperson
Marc Raibert
Industry
robotics
Employees
501
Official website
www.bostondynamics.com
Image
2022 - On the floor SM7 6945 (52472784103).jpg
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inception
1992-11-06
Commons category
Boston Dynamics
social media followers
3310000
director / manager
Marc Raibert
native label
Boston Dynamics
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Encyclopedic overview

Boston Dynamics, Inc. is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Boston Dynamics has been owned by the Hyundai Motor Group since December 2020, which completed the acquisition in June 2021.

Boston Dynamics develops a series of dynamic, highly mobile robots, including BigDog, Spot, Atlas, and Handle. In 2019, Spot became its first commercially available robot after years of exclusively being a defense contractor. The company has stated its intent to commercialize its other military robots, including Handle.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boston Dynamics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.