Spot
Our agile, mobile robot will redefine your day-to-day. It works anywhere you work, gathering data, keeping people out of harm's way, and exploring without boundaries.
Primary use case: Dynamic sensing and industrial inspection, including autonomous inspection of industrial equipment.
Specifications
Physical
Locomotion
unknown
Balance
dynamic
Manipulation
Hand Type
unknown
Power & Autonomy
Charging Time
2 hrs
Autonomy Level
fully_autonomous
AI & Compute
AI Capabilities
vision, navigation
Onboard Compute
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin (RL Researcher Kit / EAP-2 payload); NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX (Spot CORE I/O payload)
Commercial
Availability
unknown
Primary Use Case
Dynamic sensing and industrial inspection, including autonomous inspection of industrial equipment.
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Video Friday: Spot Plays to Show Its Whole Body Manipulation
Evan Ackerman's Video Friday roundup leads with a Robotics and AI Institute demonstration of Spot's whole-body manipulation, noting that direct torso involvement is hard to discern. It also collects videos of ETH Zurich humanoid locomotion research, Reachy Mini racing Microduck, monkeyBot 2.0 pipe climbing, ANYmal X, a LimX Dynamics tennis robot, DEEPRobotics machines, MonoRace drone racing, and the amphibious SAWbot; no funding is discussed.
‘Cannot be proud’: Boston Dynamics workers protest robot dog deal with ICE
Radeco, a Boston Dynamics partner, plans to modify four Spot quadrupeds into Cerberus units and supply them to ICE for immigration, smuggling, and human-trafficking enforcement in underground tunnels. More than 300 Boston Dynamics employees signed a petition calling the arrangement unethical, while company leadership backed the deal under terms prohibiting the weaponization of its robots. The controversy reflects growing concern that commercial robots are being diverted toward military and security operations.