Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated the robot called Atlas at the electronics convention on Monday in Las Vegas. The company said a product version of the robot that will help assemble cars is already in production and will be deployed by 2028 at Hyundai’s electric vehicle manufacturing facility near Savannah.

The company says Atlas will be trained to work in its auto plants, adopting the same strategy that Tesla is using to validate its "Optimus" humanoid. Hyundai says it will build 30,000 robots globally by 2028, with a big robotics plant coming to America around then.

Hyundai said it plans on mass-producing Atlas as “production-ready humanoid robots” that will be put to work at the automaker’s car plants, starting with the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant in Savannah, Georgia. The company estimates it will produce 30,000 robots annually starting in 2028.

For years, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas was the internet’s favorite gymnast. It did backflips, ran parkour courses, and danced to "Do You Love Me" in viral videos that racked up millions of views. But at a massive new automotive plant in Georgia,

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