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Boston Dynamics、元Amazon AI責任者のRohit PrasadをCEOに指名、フィジカルAI推進を深化

Rohit Prasadは2026-10-08にBoston Dynamics CEOに就任し、約9か月の後任探しを経て暫定CEOのAmanda McMasterを交代。

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  • Boston Dynamics' new CEO Rohit Prasad takes office on 2026-10-08, becoming the company's third CEO after Raibert and Playter. (S1)
  • Prasad spent 12 years at Amazon leading Alexa AI and the Nova foundation model family, and nearly 14 years at Raytheon BBN Technologies. (S1)
  • Boston Dynamics unveiled a four-finger, no-pinky Atlas hand built for sim-to-real reinforcement learning and opened the RMAC training center at Hyundai Metaplant America. (S1)

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Reported by The Robot Report on . Summarized and analyzed by XAIPART Editorial.

What happened

Boston Dynamics has named Rohit Prasad as its new CEO, effective the day after the announcement. S1 Prasad becomes the company's third CEO, succeeding founder Marc Raibert (who led Boston Dynamics from its creation through 2020) and Robert Playter (who stepped down roughly nine months before the announcement). S1 Chief Financial Officer Amanda McMaster served as interim CEO during the search. S1

Before joining Boston Dynamics, Prasad held the role of senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa and artificial general intelligence at Amazon, where he worked for 12 years. S1 Earlier in his career, he spent nearly 14 years at Raytheon BBN Technologies leading machine-learning research. S1 Boston Dynamics said his appointment accelerates a physical AI strategy that pairs its robotics platform with advanced AI capabilities. S1

The announcement lands amid several recent product moves. Boston Dynamics revealed the newest hand for the Atlas humanoid, a four-fingered design without a pinky built for high-fidelity simulation and sim-to-real reinforcement learning. S1 The company also opened its Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC) at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Georgia, a facility dedicated to integrating Atlas into Hyundai's automotive manufacturing operations. S1

On the quadruped side, Boston Dynamics introduced Spot 5.2, an update that adds agentic workflows enabling Spot to reason across systems; the Orbit AIVI fleet software is now powered by Google Gemini. S1 The company also plans to spend $100 million expanding its footprint in Waltham, Mass. S1 Hyundai acquired a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics from SoftBank Group in 2021. S1

MetricReported valueSource
Prasad's tenure at Amazon12 years[S1]
Prasad's tenure at Raytheon BBN Technologiesnearly 14 years[S1]
Waltham, Mass. expansion spend$100 million[S1]
Time Playter was absent before Prasad's startnearly nine months[S1]
Date Prasad's role becomes effective2026-10-08[S1]
Date Hyundai acquired controlling stake from SoftBank2021[S1]
Number of CEOs Boston Dynamics has hadthree (Raibert, Playter, Prasad)[S1]

Background timeline

  1. - Marc Raibert founds Boston Dynamics; serves as CEO. [S1]
  2. - Raibert steps down as CEO. [S1]
  3. - Hyundai acquires controlling stake in Boston Dynamics from SoftBank Group. [S1]
  4. - Robert Playter steps down; Amanda McMaster named interim CEO. [S1]
  5. - Boston Dynamics names Rohit Prasad as incoming CEO. [S1]
  6. - Prasad's CEO role takes effect. [S1]

XAIPART take

Technical impact

Prasad's background in Amazon Nova foundation models and AGI science is a strong signal that Boston Dynamics will push simulation-trained, foundation-model-driven control stacks rather than hand-engineered behaviors. XAIPART analysis The debut of a pinky-less, four-fingered hand explicitly built for sim-to-real reinforcement learning lines up with that direction, since smaller DoF hands reduce contact dynamics complexity for policy training. XAIPART analysis

Market impact

For procurement teams evaluating mobile robotics, the leadership change is unlikely to disrupt the Spot or Stretch product roadmaps in the near term, but it raises the probability that future Atlas and Spot releases come bundled with cloud-side AI subscriptions similar to the Alexa and Nova models Prasad helped commercialize. XAIPART analysis Lead times for Spot and Stretch BOM components are not addressed in the source and remain undisclosed. XAIPART analysis

Action

Design-in teams piloting Atlas for factory work should request the RMAC training curriculum roadmap before committing to multi-site rollouts, since Hyundai's Georgia Metaplant application center now defines the reference deployment pattern. XAIPART analysis Buyers evaluating Spot 5.2 should verify Gemini-backed Orbit AIVI inference costs and any per-robot licensing terms before locking fleet budgets, given that agentic workflows change the compute and storage footprint versus legacy Orbit releases. XAIPART analysis

XAIPART Forecast

XAIPART expects that by Q1 2027 Boston Dynamics will publish an Atlas or Spot release note naming a foundation model layer (a Nova-family or Gemini-class stack) inside the on-robot runtime, lifting on-device inference workload to at least one NVIDIA-class or equivalent edge accelerator per platform. XAIPART analysis This forecast is falsifiable: if no Boston Dynamics product release note by 2027-03-31 references such a model layer, this forecast is wrong.

Facts are as reported by the cited source. The design-in, sourcing and forward-looking statements above are XAIPART's analysis, not the source's claims. Unconfirmed elements include the final structure of Prasad's board seat (described in the source as subject to a relevant approval process), detailed pricing or licensing for the Gemini-powered Orbit AIVI, and any change to Spot or Stretch lead times following the CEO transition. Source is a single trade publication; details not disclosed by the source are left undisclosed.

Corrections: none at publication. This brief will be updated with a timestamp if the source corrects its report.

Dated developments, extracted from this page's timeline (curated milestones = hollow markers).
Timeline of dated developmentsDated entries: 1992-01-01 - Marc Raibert founds Boston Dynam…; 2020-01-01 - Raibert steps down as CEO. [S1]; 2021-01-01 - Hyundai acquires controlling sta…; 2026-02-01 2026 - Robert Playter steps down; …; 2026-10-07 - Boston Dynamics names Rohit Pras…; 2026-10-08 - Prasad's CEO role takes effect. ….1992-01-01- Marc Raibert founds Boston Dynam…2020-01-01- Raibert steps down as CEO. [S1]2021-01-01- Hyundai acquires controlling sta…2026-02-012026 - Robert Playter steps down; …2026-10-07- Boston Dynamics names Rohit Pras…2026-10-08- Prasad's CEO role takes effect. …

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  1. Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon exec Rohit Prasad as new CEO — https://www.therobotreport.com/boston-dynamics-appoints-former-amazon-executive-rohit-prasad-new-ceo/ · rss · 参照日

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