Hyundai plans to manufacture 30,000 Atlas robots a year starting in 2028 at its high-tech Georgia auto factory.

We’ve been trying to figure out how do we not just make a humanoid robot, but also make a humanoid robot that does useful work,” said Pras Velagapudi, chief technology offi

Hyundai plans to set up a manufacturing system to build thousands of robots by 2028, leaning on its majority stake in Boston Dynamics to compete in the global rush to mass-produce AI-powered robots. It's an impressive pitch that puts Tesla right in its sights.

The company says Atlas will be trained to work in its auto plants, adopting the same strategy that Tesla is using to validate its "Optimus" humanoid. Hyundai says it will build 30,000 robots globally by 2028, with a big robotics plant coming to America around then.

In the shared video, when instructed to bring a can, the Menteebot V3 humanoid first interprets the spoken request, then scans its surroundings to identify the correct item. It navigates autonomously to the counter, locates a matching can, grasps it, and returns to the person.

With the age of humanoids upon us, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted that his robots will curb crime, eliminate poverty and do surgery.

McLain seems to have come away with the impression that makers of robots are worried they’ve oversold a technology that, well, sucks. So far anyway. Sure, Elon Musk is promising a robot army, and there’s now some kind of robot butler being preordered by rich people who are expected to pay $20,