Boston Dynamics — R&D
The most recognized robotics company in the world. Boston Dynamics' viral videos of Atlas doing parkour and Spot dancing have made legged robots mainstream, and Spot is deployed in 90+ countries.
Notable achievements
Atlas (world's most athletic humanoid), Spot (10,000+ deployed globally), Stretch warehouse robot, viral YouTube videos (500M+ views), Hyundai acquisition.
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?
Tianchong Jiang, Xiangshan Tan, Samuel Wheeler +3 more
2026
DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong +3 more
2026
VLAConf: Calibrated Task-Success Confidence for Vision-Language-Action Models
Dehao Huang, Aoxiang Gu, Chengjie Zhang +5 more
2026
Before the Body Moves: Learning Anticipatory Joint Intent for Language-Conditioned Humanoid Control
Haozhe Jia, Honglei Jin, Yuan Zhang +9 more
2026
Single twistable tendon-driven continuum robots.
Lai J, Liu Y, Ren TA +5 more
Nature communications · 2026