Opened on September 21 in Georgia, the RMAC center trains humanoids on real automotive logistics tasks. The assembly of components is not expected before 2030.
On September 21, 2026, Boston Dynamics inaugurated the Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC), located at Hyundai Motor Group's Metaplant America site, near Savannah, Georgia. The center had been in the pilot phase since June; it is now operating at full capacity. The stated objective is no longer to demonstrate but to prepare for an industrial deployment.
In it, Atlas learns about tasks that are actually practiced in the factory: preparing the logistics of automotive parts and sequencing them, i.e. putting them back in the right order before they join the assembly line. Then will come the repetitive gestures and heavy handling. Zack Jackowski, the company's director of product and technology, presents the operation as an attempt to take physical AI to an industrial scale.
A multi-year schedule
In 2027, the business is to move to a building about ten times larger, and exploration is to extend to aerospace, semiconductors, logistics and agri-food. Component assembly is not targeted until 2030. In the long term, Hyundai Motor Group has announced a target of 25,000 Atlas units spread across its and Kia's factories, backed by a project for an American plant capable of producing 30,000 robots per year.
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