[LeifCarrotson]

True, but this is Hydundai Motor Group, not Hyundai Robotics. The two are separate.

IMO, this is more about Hyundai's autonomous vehicle efforts. A BD robot is almost completely different than an industrial automation robot, the former attempts to use 3D mapping to dynamically generate an unpredictable path around obstacles between two points, while the latter is designed to always follow exactly the same kinematics between hard-coded points. A car with a steering wheel and forward/reverse electric motors is a lot more comparable to a Boston Dynamics robot than a 6-axis industrial arm is.

[tooltalk]

>> IMO, this is more about Hyundai's autonomous vehicle efforts.

I disagree. As the article points out:

  ..., why not just buy an autonomous car startup instead? Boston Dynamics is more about “robots,” which happens to be dead last on the list above. ...

I think Hyundai's VEX, Wearable Vest Exoskeleton, is inline with what the company is trying to do with BD:

https://www.roboticstomorrow.com/story/2019/09/hyundai-motor...