Boston Dynamics Robot CTO Resigns, CEO... Key technical personnel are gone

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It's Boston, an affiliate of Hyundai Motor GroupScott Quindusma, vice president of robotics research at NaMix, recently announced his resignation. It's Boston in 2018It is the resignation of a technology leader by joining Naein Mix and designing major movements such as robot dance and gymnastics.

Vice President Scott Quindersma is a typical technology leader who oversees robot research across the company as a key person who designed the behavior patterns and algorithms of Boston Dynamics Atlas, which is well known to us. He announced that he would quit the company as of the 27th of this month. The Boston Dynamics staffing drain has been going on for months. Starting with Chief Technology Officer Aaron Saunders' resignation in the second half of last year, CEO Robert Plater has also recently announced his resignation.

The industry has made various interpretations on the departure of leaders who planned and conducted major research results that symbolically expressed Boston Dynamics such as robot dogs and Atlas. First of all, Hyundai Motor Group's under-the-table IPO is being analyzed in mind and purely as an improvement in the corporate constitution of transitioning from a research organization to a business organization with a departure of technical manpower.

Various preliminary stops are needed to proceed with a company's IPO, but there seems to be no disagreement that Boston Dynamics still lacks its own capabilities to proceed with such a procedure. However, some say, "Why can't we prevent the departure of technology personnel who have been studying until now, whether it is IPO or business organization transition?" Some predict the possibility of moving to global big tech or competitors, considering that they have moved to Google DeepMind after leaving the company.

On the other hand, it's Boston, apart from this leakage of technical personnelBased on the results of CES 2026 held in Las Vegas earlier this year, Lee Na-Mix also announced plans to deploy Atlas to production bases including Hyundai Motor Group's Metaplant America (HMGMA) two years later.

According to Boston Dynamics, the successor to Scott Quindersma and others, including the CEO, is still undecided, but Chief Financial Officer Amanda McMaster will temporarily serve as CEO until it is confirmed. In addition, Hyundai Motor Group's robot strategy has completed the first stage of technology acquisition and pilot application, and has entered the second stage of full-fledged business profitability verification. In particular, Hyundai Motor Group has set up a business planning TF team directly under Vice Chairman Jang Jae-hoon and is reportedly preparing to go public on Nasdaq.

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