{"id":96627,"date":"2019-09-24T13:24:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T20:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-dog-goes-on-sale"},"modified":"2019-09-24T13:24:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T20:24:58","slug":"boston-dynamics-spot-robot-dog-goes-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-dog-goes-on-sale","title":{"rendered":"Boston Dynamics\u2019 Spot Robot Dog Goes on Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wlkCQXHEgjA\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostondynamics.com\/\">Boston Dynamics<\/a> is announcing this morning that <a href=\"https:\/\/robots.ieee.org\/robots\/spotmini\/?utm_source=spectrum\">Spot<\/a>, its versatile quadruped robot, is now for sale. The machine\u2019s animal-like behavior regularly electrifies crowds at tech conferences, and like other Boston Dynamics\u2019 robots, Spot is a YouTube sensation whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/BostonDynamics\/videos\">videos<\/a> amass millions of views.<\/p>\n<p>Now anyone interested in buying a Spot\u2014or a pack of them\u2014can go to the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostondynamics.com\/spot\">website<\/a> and submit an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostondynamics.com\/spot-sales\">order form<\/a>. But don\u2019t pull out your credit card just yet. Spot may cost as much as a luxury car, and it is not really available to consumers. The initial sale, described as an \u201cearly adopter program,\u201d is targeting businesses. Boston Dynamics wants to find customers in select industries and help them deploy Spots in real-world scenarios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Dynamics is announcing this morning that Spot, its versatile quadruped robot, is now for sale. The machine\u2019s animal-like behavior regularly electrifies crowds at tech conferences, and like other Boston Dynamics\u2019 robots, Spot is a YouTube sensation whose videos amass millions of views. Now anyone interested in buying a Spot\u2014or a pack of them\u2014can go [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96627","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}