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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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Official name
- Boston Dynamics
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Marc Raibert
- Headquarters
- Massachusetts
- Owned by
- SoftBank Group
- 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
Show 5 more facts
- 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.