Spot, SpotMini, four-legged robots, Boston Dynamics, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, USA


Spot launch

Published on Sep 24, 2019

Spot is an agile mobile robot that you can customize for a wide range of applications. The base platform provides rough-terrain mobility, 360 degree obstacle avoidance, and various levels of navigation, remote control and autonomy. You can customize Spot by adding specialized sensors, software and other payloads. Early customers are already testing Spot to monitor construction sites, provide remote inspection at gas, oil and power installations, and in public safety. Spot is in mass production and currently shipping to select early adopters.
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Boston Dynamics Spot hands-on: new dog, new tricks

Published on Sep 24, 2019

Boston Dynamics is putting Spot to work. The company has announced a new leasing program for its Spot robot (formerly SpotMini), which is aimed at construction, entertainment, and other automation-friendly industries. But is the world ready for this semi-autonomous quadruped?
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"Boston Dynamics’ Spot is leaving the laboratory"
A new leasing program is putting dozens of robots to work in the real world

by Russell Brandom
September 24, 2019

Matthew Kelly
 

Boston Dynamics Spot robot is ready to leave the nest

Oct 4, 2019

The Spot robot from Boston Dynamics is all grown up and ready to leave home, so we're taking a trip down memory lane and revisiting some of Spot's most iconic, and most disturbing moments.
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Adam Savage tests Boston Dynamics' Spot robot!

Jan 23, 2020

Adam welcomes a new member to the Tested family: Boston Dynamics' Spot robot! All throughout this year, Adam will be conducting builds and projects with Spot, integrating it into the workshop and taking it on adventures in the field. The first thing to do is test Spot's capabilities at an outdoor training course! Our Year with Spot commences!
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Adam Savage's Spot robot rickshaw carriage!

Feb 13, 2020

Adam's first project with Boston Dynamics' Spot robot gives it a novel purpose: pulling a custom-built carriage with Adam as its passenger! Watch Adam give Spot some Victorian flair and the interesting problems that arise in marrying cutting-edge robot technology with vintage transport.
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Meet Spot, the quadruped robot

Feb 11, 2020

Spot, the quadruped robot has been developed by Boston Dynamics. Cognite and Aker BP have tested Spot’s mobility in simulated oil and gas environments to ensure that it can access locations in these facilities too difficult to access through traditional automation.
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DARPA: Boston Dynamics – robot Spot Mini evolution

May 13, 2020

Boston Dynamics is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The company is a pioneer in the field of robotics and it is one of the most advanced in its domain. On 13 December 2013, the company was acquired by Google X (later X, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.) for an unknown price. Immediately before the acquisition, Boston Dynamics transferred their DI-Guy software product line to VT MÄK, a simulation software vendor based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On 8 June 2017, Alphabet Inc. announced the sale of the company to Japan's SoftBank Group for an undisclosed sum. On April 2, 2019, Boston Dynamics acquired the Silicon Valley startup Kinema Systems. Products: LittleDog - Around 2010 LittleDog was released, it's a small quadruped robot developed for DARPA by Boston Dynamics for research.; BigDog - was a quadrupedal robot created in 2004 by Boston Dynamics, in conjunction with Foster-Miller, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station. It was funded by the DARPA in the hopes that it would be able to serve as a robotic pack mule to accompany soldiers in terrain too rough for vehicles, but the project was shelved after BigDog was deemed too loud to be used in combat. Instead of wheels, BigDog used four legs for movement, allowing it to move across surfaces that would defeat wheels. Called "the world's most ambitious legged robot", it was designed to carry 340 pounds (150 kg) alongside a soldier at 4 miles per hour (6.4 km/h; 1.8 m/s), traversing rough terrain at inclines up to 35 degrees. A similar development is Legged Squad Support Systems.; Cheetah - is a four-footed robot that gallops at 28 miles per hour (45 km/h; 13 m/s), which as of August 2012 is a land speed record for legged robots. A similar but independently developed robot also known as Cheetah is made by MIT's Biomimetic Robotics Lab, which, by 2014, could jump over obstacles while running. By 2018 the robot was able to climb stairs. On October 5, 2013, a version of the robot called WildCat was introduced, operating autonomously.; Spot - On June 23, 2016. In November 2019 Massachusetts State Police became the first enforcement agency to use Spot mini as robot cop as well as in the unit's bomb squad.
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With you, Spot can

Jun 16, 2020

Spot, the nimble robot that climbs stairs and traverses rough terrain with unprecedented ease, is now available for purchase to businesses in the U.S. Use Spot for documenting construction progress, reducing risk to people in dangerous environments, or other tasks that are too difficult for traditional automation.
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Walk with Spot

Aug 4, 2020

Today we’re launching a new program called Walk With Spot to accelerate the development of robotics applications. We’re doing this by giving people from all walks of life (like you) the opportunity to remotely control a Boston Dynamics Spot (robotic dog) from anywhere in the world using a simple web-based application.
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We took Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot for a walk from 3,000 miles away

Aug 4, 2020

San Francisco-based Formant is letting anyone remotely take its Spot robot for a walk. Watch The Robot Report editors, based in Boston, take Spot for a walk around Golden Gate Park.
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Driving Spot for the first time

Aug 4, 2020

A San Francisco-based company called Formant is giving you -- yes, anybody -- the opportunity to take Boston Dynamic's Spot the robot for a walk, remotely.
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Formant (Figure Projects, Inc.)
 

Boston Dynamics Spot robot put to work at Ford

Aug 10, 2020

A Spot robot from Boston Dynamics nicknamed "Fluffy" has been put to work digitally scanning a Ford manufacturing plant in Michigan.
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Autonomous farm work - enter the robots

May 19, 2020

The use of autonomous robots in agriculture is increasing the efficiency of food production. Robots, like Spot from Boston Dynamics, increase accuracy in yield estimates, relieve the strain of worker shortages, and create precision in farming.
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"Rocos to add remote management to Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot"

by Eugene Demaitre
May 19, 2020

"A robot sheepdog? ‘No one wants this,’ says one shepherd"
A word of caution about the robotized future of farming

by James Vincent
May 22, 2020

Rocos Global Limited
 
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