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.

The race is on to make humanoid robots. Elon Musk announced Wednesday that Tesla is shutting down production of two electric car models and converting a California plant to build the Optimus robot . But while Tesla tries to get up to speed,

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.