Robert Playter

He takes over, uh, for Amanda McMaster, I believe, who was the interim CEO.

And of course, all of this is a result of Robert Playter, who stepped down a number of months ago.

Um, but prior to joining Boston Dynamics, Prasad was a senior VP and head scientist for Alexa, for Amazon Alexa and the artificial general intelligence over at Amazon.

Uh, so he's obviously been instrumental in building out Alexa from its earliest days into really turning it into a, a consumer AI service that's used in hundreds of millions of devices, uh, in households and other devices around the world.

He left Amazon at the end of last year.

He fills a job held on an interim basis since Robert Playter stepped down in February.

Boston Dynamics just opened a center in Georgia to train its Atlas humanoid for Hyundai's car plants.

Hyundai, which controls the company, cited Prasad's record of turning AI into products at global scale.