Boston Dynamics Spot

Boston Dynamics' commercial quadruped robot dog, used mainly for industrial inspection.

Spot is the quadruped robot from Boston Dynamics that went on commercial sale in June 2020, when the base kit was priced at $74,500 (now quote-only). It has 12 degrees of freedom across its four legs, weighs about 32.5 kg, can carry roughly 14 kg on its back, reaches a top speed of about 1.6 m/s, and can climb stairs and cross slopes and rubble. Its back carries an expansion interface for payloads such as a robot arm, thermal camera, or lidar, and it is commonly used for automated inspection in factories and power plants and for surveying hazardous sites. It was one of the first legged robots to be commercialized at scale, and is often treated as the reference example of a quadruped robot.

ExampleA power plant runs Spot on a fixed patrol route to read gauges and check equipment temperature.

Also called

Spot

Related

Quadruped Robot · Boston Dynamics · Inspection Robot · Legged Mobile Manipulator (Quadruped with Arm) · ANYbotics ANYmal · Unitree Go2

Sources

Boston Dynamics Launches Commercial Sales of Spot Robot
Spot | Boston Dynamics

As of

2020-06