{"id":114851,"date":"2020-10-21T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/boston-dynamics-will-start-selling-arms-for-its-robodog-spot-next-year"},"modified":"2020-10-21T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T06:23:00","slug":"boston-dynamics-will-start-selling-arms-for-its-robodog-spot-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/boston-dynamics-will-start-selling-arms-for-its-robodog-spot-next-year","title":{"rendered":"Boston Dynamics will start selling arms for its robodog Spot next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tf7IEVTDjng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Boston Dynamics has reportedly already sold more than 250 of its $75,000 Spot robots since <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/06\/16\/boston-dynamics-buy-spot-robot-74500\/\" target=\"_blank\">starting commercial sales<\/a> back in June. Interested and deep-pocketed parties can purchase one directly from the company\u2019s website as well as a host of accessories, from $1,650 charging bricks to $34,570 lidar and camera kits. But one add-on which we\u2019ve seen Spot with since some of its earliest demo videos was the prehensile arm sprouting from between its shoulder blades. <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/09\/09\/boston-dynamics-spot-sales-robot-arm-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\">But come next January<\/a>, Spots around the world are going to get a whole lot more handsy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next thing on the future Spot is that we\u2019re going to make it available with a robot arm in a few months,\u201d Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert told the virtual crowd at the Collision from Home conference <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/06\/25\/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-arm-months-home-use-someday\/\" target=\"_blank\">in June<\/a>. \u201cWe have prototypes working, but we don\u2019t have them available as a product yet. Once you have an arm on a robot, it becomes a mobile manipulation system. It really opens up just vast horizons on things robots can do. I believe that the mobility of the robot will contribute to the dexterity of the robot in ways that we just don\u2019t get with current fixed factory automation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Dynamics has reportedly already sold more than 250 of its $75,000 Spot robots since starting commercial sales back in June. Interested and deep-pocketed parties can purchase one directly from the company\u2019s website as well as a host of accessories, from $1,650 charging bricks to $34,570 lidar and camera kits. But one add-on which we\u2019ve [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}