Boston Dynamics Rohit Prasad CEO appointment

Boston Dynamics appointed Rohit Prasad as CEO effective October 7. Its October 6 announcement says Prasad previously led Alexa and artificial general intelligence work at Amazon and later helped develop the Amazon Nova model family. Boston Dynamics presents the appointment as part of a strategy to bring more AI capability into robots for industrial and commercial settings. The company already offers Spot and Stretch, while its electric humanoid Atlas remains in development. The leadership change is confirmed; the announcement does not establish that a new autonomous product has launched or that the company’s commercialization goals have been achieved.