Hyundai Plans 25,000 ‘Atlas’ Humanoid Robots for Factories by 2028

Hyundai’s next factory workers may not need hard hats.The company is preparing to deploy more than 25,000 Atlas-based humanoid robots across its manufacturing operations, according to reports from Yonhap News Agency. The effort is expected to begin at Hyundai’s Georgia Metaplant in 2028 before expanding to Kia’s Georgia plant in 2029.For Hyundai, the rollout is not just a robotics flex. It is a test of whether humanoid robots can perform useful, repetitive, physically demanding