Deal with Boston Dynamics, announced at CES 2026, marks Hyundai Mobis’ first customer in the robotics components market.
Hyundai Mobis announced that it has formed a strategic collaboration with Boston Dynamics, a global leader in robotics, at CES 2026 in Las Vegas.
The company stated on the 7th that it will supply actuators for Atlas, Boston Dynamics’s next-generation humanoid robot. As part of its new $26 billion U.S. investment, Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) plans to build and deploy tens of thousands of robots over the next few years, and the collaboration with Hyundai Mobis will help accelerate Boston Dynamics and HMG’s mass production plans for Atlas.
Through this agreement, Hyundai Mobis secures its first official customer in the robotics sector, marking a significant milestone as it enters the global robot components market.
Over the past several years, Hyundai Mobis has steadily expanded beyond the automotive industry and reshaped its business portfolio to include high–value-added fields such as robotics. This transformation aligns with the company’s mid- to long-term strategy to proactively respond to the rapidly evolving mobility landscape and establish a sustainable business foundation.
Hyundai Mobis is leveraging its accumulated expertise in automotive component development and large-scale manufacturing to enter the robot actuator market, a field closely aligned with its core capabilities. Actuators, which convert control signals into physical movement, are a critical subsystem for humanoid robots and represent more than 60% of their material cost.
The strategic cooperation between Hyundai Mobis and Boston Dynamics, along with the agreement on actuator supply, is expected to benefit both companies. Boston Dynamics is said to have highly valued Hyundai Mobis’s engineering expertise, reliability-based evaluation systems, and global-standard mass production capabilities.
For Hyundai Mobis, securing Boston Dynamics, a global leader in robotics, as its first customer in the field provides a stable long-term demand partner. The company plans to use this momentum to establish a large-scale actuator manufacturing system and strengthen its design capabilities for high-performance robotics components.
The collaboration is expected to help both companies carve out leadership positions in the emerging robotics components industry. As the robot component market currently lacks a dominant global player, establishing a reliable, cost-competitive large-scale supply system could allow both companies to achieve economies of scale early.
In August of last year, Hyundai Motor Group announced plans to build a robot factory capable of producing 30,000 units annually and develop the site into a robotics production hub for the North American region. With growing demand expected for various components needed for robot manufacturing, Hyundai Mobis is projected to play an increasingly significant role in the robotics ecosystem.
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