Hyundai is set to acquire SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, making the robotics firm a wholly owned Hyundai subsidiary. SoftBank is exercising a pre-agreed put option, with Hyundai's board expected to approve the deal on June 22. The acquisition comes as Boston Dynamics transitions its electric Atlas humanoid from demonstration to commercial production, with output initially earmarked for Hyundai's own factories. Hyundai and Boston Dynamics have plans for a facility capable of producing 30,000 humanoids annually, with Atlas set to work at Hyundai's Metaplant in Georgia. The deal gives Hyundai vertical integration across robot design, manufacturing, and deployment on its own assembly lines — a competitive edge in a rapidly crowding humanoid robotics market that includes Tesla's Optimus and numerous Chinese rivals.
