Robots are quietly lining up for factory jobs and humans may soon be outnumbered or replaced entirely

Way back during Covid (the longest five years ago), Hyundai spent a pretty penny to purchase Boston Dynamics—the company that has been teasing us with increasingly life-like (life-adjacent might be more accurate) robots for more than three decades now.

A revolutionary ‘dark factory’, where cars are made by robots instead of humans, is set to significantly change car manufacturing in the biggest upheaval for more than 100 years.

ATLANTA — A humanoid robot took center stage at the CES tech showcase this week, which will soon help build cars here in Georgia. Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated the robot called Atlas at the electronics convention on Monday in Las Vegas.

Korean auto giant plans to manufacture 30,000 humanoid robots a year at its Georgia factory starting in 2028. Hyundai Motor Group and its subsidiary, Boston Dynamics, unveil humanoid robots on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, that will be deployed at the company's ...

With short supply lines and cutthroat competition, Chinese EV brands are making huge advances in related fields such as automation and robotics.

Tesla also announced plans to end production of its Model S and Model X vehicles. It will now use the manufacturing plant in California that made those cars to produce its line of humanoid robots - known as Optimus.

KRON4's Michael Thomas reports