Boston Dynamics announced on October 7, 2026, the appointment of Rohit Prasad, formerly senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa at Amazon, as its new chief executive officer. The move comes as the robotics company looks to accelerate its push into Physical AI and commercialize intelligent robotic systems at scale.
Prasad's background is squarely in large-scale AI systems rather than robotics hardware specifically, a pairing that signals where Boston Dynamics intends to compete next: not just building capable robot bodies, but the onboard intelligence that lets them operate with less direct human oversight, the same bottleneck that rival humanoid robotics companies have also identified as the harder problem to solve.