According to a report from Semafor , it sounds like the C-suite at Boston Dynamics—the company that made the original creepy walking robot videos —has come under a bit of a strain as Hyundai, the Korean automaker that bought a majority stake in Boston Dynamics in 2021, demands a huge manufacturing surge. Earlier this year at CES , Boston Dynamics and Hyundai showed off a startlingly capable new update to its Atlas series of robot prototypes that, it claimed, had a production-ready version all set to be manufactured in “a new robotics factory capable of producing 30,000 Atlas robots a year.” Then in February, as Semafor notes, Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter retired. Then for whatever reason the CTO and CFO left. Semafor’s anonymous sources are former employees, apparently, and they claim that group of executives was forced out. Additional departures have apparently included senior researchers and engineers.…