Robots are quietly lining up for factory jobs and humans may soon be outnumbered or replaced entirely

With short supply lines and cutthroat competition, Chinese EV brands are making huge advances in related fields such as automation and robotics.

Automakers are racing to build the first car plant where robots, not people, handle every task from welding to final inspection. The vision of a fully automated “dark factory” is no longer science fiction but a concrete target for the next decade,

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.

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.

Korean auto giant plans to manufacture 30,000 humanoid robots a year at its Georgia factory starting in 2028. Hyundai Motor Group and its subsidiary, Boston Dynamics, unveil humanoid robots on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, that will be deployed at the company's ...

Tesla’s preparing to wind down production of the Model X this spring as it shifts its focus toward building humanoid robots.

Tesla also announced plans to end production of its Model S and Model X vehicles. It will now use the manufacturing plant in California that made those cars to produce its line of humanoid robots - known as Optimus.