🔬 Corporate#84 Waltham, MA, USA· Est. 1992
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.
dynamic legged locomotionAtlas humanoidSpot quadrupedmanipulationwhole-body control
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
AtlasSpotStretch
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
MANIPULATION
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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
LOCOMOTION
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Before the Body Moves: Learning Anticipatory Joint Intent for Language-Conditioned Humanoid Control
Haozhe Jia, Honglei Jin, Yuan Zhang +9 more
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
How VLAs Fail Differently: Black-Box Action Monitoring Reveals Architecture-Specific Failure Signatures
Krishnam Gupta
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
What Frozen VLAs Already Know About Success: A Probing Study of Value-Like Structure in Foundation Robot Policies
Jiachen Zhang, Junnan Nie, Junyi Lao +4 more
2026
PERCEPTION
Open access
OSMa-Bench++: Toward Open-Ended Benchmarking of Semantic Mapping for Manipulation with Prompt-Generated Synthetic Scenes
Regina Kurkova, Maxim Popov, Sergey Kolyubin
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
EXPO-FT: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Finetuning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Perry Dong, Kuo-Han Hung, Tian Gao +2 more
2026