“Two years: Atlas humanoid robots will start working on the factory floor at Hyundai's plant in Ellabell, Georgia by 2028 — and to get there, 'we need to be able to bring a new task to bear in a day or two... because I think in a factory, there's literally hundreds of tasks and the tasks evolve.'”

Deadline is 2028; Atlas training began at Hyundai's Robotics Metaplant Application Center in Georgia in mid-2026, one step ahead of the promised assembly-line deployment.