Hyundai Motor Group News
Latest Hyundai Motor Group news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Hyundai Motor Group
<p>Hyundai Motor Group is a South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate) formed in 1998 when Hyundai Motor Company separated from the original Hyundai Group and took a controlling stake in Kia Motors. It is the parent group for the Hyundai, Kia and Genesis vehicle brands as well as affiliates in steel, construction, finance, logistics and parts manufacturing (including Hyundai Mobis and Hyundai Rotem), and it ranks among the world's largest automakers by vehicle sales.</p>
<p>The Group entered robotics in 2021 by acquiring an 80% controlling stake in Boston Dynamics from SoftBank, and in 2026 it acquired SoftBank's remaining shares to take full ownership of the company, which makes the Atlas humanoid robot, the Spot quadruped robot and the Stretch warehouse robot. Hyundai Motor Group also develops hydrogen fuel-cell systems under its HTWO brand and pursues urban air mobility and advanced air taxi development through its Supernal subsidiary.</p>
<p>Core vehicle products include the Hyundai IONIQ battery-electric lineup, Kia's EV line-up and Genesis luxury models, alongside internal-combustion and hybrid vehicles sold worldwide under the Hyundai and Kia brands.</p>Key facts
Products by Hyundai Motor Group
- IONIQ 5 (Autonomous Vehicle, 2021) — Battery-electric crossover sold under the Hyundai brand.
- Atlas (Robot, 2013) — Bipedal humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics, a Hyundai Motor Group subsidiary.
- Spot (Robot, 2019) — Commercially sold quadruped robot developed by Boston Dynamics.
- Stretch (Robot, 2021) — Warehouse case-handling robot developed by Boston Dynamics.
- HTWO (Component, 2020) — Hydrogen fuel-cell system brand developed by Hyundai Motor Group for vehicles and industrial applications.
Latest Hyundai Motor Group news
- URobotics Raises $33.5M to Put Its Mobility Kit on Humanoids and Quadrupeds — A KAIST spinoff's modular E-DONG-KIT lets any robot judge rough terrain on its own. The Series A values the company at 10 times its seed round on the...
- Hyundai Mobis Starts Building Actuator Prototypes for Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot — Hyundai Mobis begins prototype production of humanoid actuators this month at its Uiwang research center, aiming to supply all 31 joints in Boston Dyn...
- Boston Dynamics Opens Atlas Training Center At Hyundai's Georgia Metaplant — The Robotics Metaplant Application Center puts electric Atlas robots to work on parts logistics at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, with a 10x l...
- Hyundai Turns On AI 'Data Flywheel' To Close Waymo And Tesla Autonomy Gap — Hyundai Motor Group has put its AI-powered Data Flywheel into full operation, pairing 42dot's closed-loop training pipeline with fleet data from ~7 mi...
- Boston Dynamics IPO Unlikely In 2027 As Hyundai Prioritises Atlas Rollout — A senior Hyundai executive told Reuters a 2027 IPO for Boston Dynamics 'won't be easy', pushing the listing behind a factory build-out that targets 30...
- Samsung Fast-Tracks In-House Humanoid As Roh Personally Reviews Prototype — Samsung Electronics is racing to commercialize an in-house humanoid robot after co-CEO Roh Tae-moon personally reviewed a working prototype and top-ti...
- Waymo Goes Driverless in Las Vegas With Denver, San Diego and Tampa Next — Alphabet's Waymo has activated fully driverless operations in Las Vegas and confirmed Denver, San Diego and Tampa are next, pushing the robotaxi unit...
- Hyundai's Chung Vows Open Robot Reference Platform With NVIDIA At SF AI Summit — Executive Chair Euisun Chung unveiled Hyundai's Physical AI roadmap in San Francisco, headlined by an open Robot Reference Platform co-built with NVID...
- Samsung Launches RX Humanoid Robotics Division Under CEO TM Roh — Samsung Electronics officially launched its Robotics eXperience (RX) division on July 21, backing it with the factory-tested Shallow-π VLA model and a...
- Hyundai to buy 100% of Boston Dynamics from SoftBank for $325M — Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring SoftBank's remaining ~10% Boston Dynamics stake for about $325 million after SoftBank triggered a put option, taking...
- CuspAI Raises $450M Series B, Launches 45-Partner AI Materials Foundry — Cambridge-based CuspAI closed a $450M Series B co-led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, with Bezos Expeditions and the UK's Sovereign AI Fund on board, at a...
- SK On And Hyundai Open $5B Bartow Battery Cell Plant To Feed Georgia Metaplant — SK On and Hyundai Motor Group's $5 billion 50/50 EV battery cell joint venture in Bartow County has begun initial production and will ramp to 35 GWh a...
- Hyundai Union Stages First-Ever Strike Over Humanoid Robots — About 35,000 Hyundai workers cut shifts short for three days demanding a labor-management agreement before any Atlas or other humanoid enters a Korean...
- Hyundai Buys Out SoftBank For 100% Of Boston Dynamics — Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, giving the Korean automaker full ownership of t...
- Boston Dynamics Atlas Delivers World Cup Match Ball at Brazil vs Norway — Boston Dynamics' fifth-generation Atlas humanoid handed the match ball to the referee at halftime of the Brazil vs Norway FIFA World Cup Round of 16,...
- Hyundai to Buy Out SoftBank's Boston Dynamics Stake for $325M — Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, making the Atlas maker a wholly owned subsidiar...
- NVIDIA And Hyundai Deepen Alliance To Put Atlas Robots On The Factory Floor — NVIDIA and Hyundai expanded their partnership in Seoul to commercialize physical AI and robotics, with Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid central to the...
- HD Hyundai Robotics Launches Heavy-Payload HDC Cobots To Challenge Doosan — HD Hyundai Robotics will roll out three second-generation HDC collaborative robots on 1 July 2026 — the HDC 25-18, HDC 35-18 and HDC 50-17 — pushing p...
- Avride Crosses 60,000 Uber Trips In Dallas As Robotaxi Service Doubles Footprint — Avride says its autonomous Hyundai Ioniq 5 fleet has completed more than 60,000 passenger trips on Uber in Dallas and logged 1.3 million autonomous mi...
- Factorial Energy Begins Nasdaq Trading As Solid-State Battery Race Moves To Public Markets — Factorial Energy completed its merger with SPAC Cartesian Growth Corp III on June 8 and began trading on Nasdaq as FAC at a $1.3B equity value, raisin...