Details
- Boston Dynamics appointed Rohit Prasad as chief executive officer, effective October 7, 2026, to lead its Physical AI strategy and commercialization efforts.
- Prasad previously spent 12 years at Amazon as senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa and Artificial General Intelligence, after nearly 14 years at Raytheon BBN Technologies.
- He helped scale Alexa into a consumer AI service used in hundreds of millions of households and later led development of Amazon Nova, a foundation-model family for enterprise applications.
- The appointment shifts Boston Dynamics’ leadership emphasis toward combining advanced AI with its robotic platforms: Spot for industrial inspection, Stretch for logistics, and Atlas, an electric humanoid platform under development.
- Owned by Hyundai Motor Group, Boston Dynamics intends to use its robotics capabilities, manufacturing, logistics, and mobility resources to expand intelligent machines across industrial and commercial environments.
Impact
Prasad’s appointment links large-scale AI productization experience with mobile robotics, reinforcing the industry’s shift from software-based generative AI toward systems that perceive and act in physical environments. Over the next 12–24 months, Boston Dynamics is likely to prioritize deployable autonomy, AI-enabled workflow integration, and partnerships that can convert robotic prototypes into repeatable commercial offerings.
