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Spot
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Spot is a compact, nimble four-legged robot that can trot around your office, home, or outdoors. It can map its environment, sense and avoid obstacles, climb stairs, and open doors. It can also fetch you a drink.
- Creator
- Boston Dynamics
- Country
- United States 🇺🇸
- Year
- 2016
- Type
- Industrial, Research
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Did You Know?
Spot goes down stairs by walking backwards. |
Boston Dynamics has renamed SpotMini as just Spot, and the original Spot is now called Spot Classic. |
Spot has a variety of fancy footwork and gaits, such as crawling, walking, trotting, and pacing. |
Spot can stabilize its arm-head, while shaking its body around—a move inspired by chickens. |
In a video, Spot is seen slipping on a banana peel. But don't worry: It didn't get damaged, and it can get up on its own. |
Spot is not completely quiet, but it is one of the quietest robots Boston Dynamics has ever built. |
Specs
- FEATURES
- Mobile manipulation. Capable of handling up to 14 kg payloads. 3D vision system with SLAM and obstacle avoidance. Omni-directional walking and multiple walking and trotting gaits. Can climb and descend stairs. Bioinspired dynamic control. Balances and adjusts to physical disturbances. Remote controlled by a human operator while also being able to navigate and perform some tasks autonomously. Ingress protection IP54. Operating environment -20C to 45C.
- HEIGHT
- 84 cm | 33 in
- LENGTH
- N/A cm | N/A in
- WIDTH
- N/A cm | N/A in
- WEIGHT
- 25 kg | 55 lb (30 kg | 65 lbs with arm)
- SPEED
- 5.76 km/h | 3.6 mph
- SENSORS
- Perception sensors including stereo cameras, IMU, and position/force sensors in limbs.
- ACTUATORS
- All-electric actuation
- POWER
- 90 minutes of battery operation
- COMPUTING
- Custom control and computing system. Additional compute module can be mounted on top.
- SOFTWARE
- GRPC-based API and Python client library. Spot Software Development Kit (SDK).
- DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DOF)
- N/A Arm: 6 DoF
- MATERIALS
- N/A
- COST
- N/A
- STATUS
- Ongoing
- WEBSITE
- https://www.bostondynamics.com/spot
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