{"id":96858,"date":"2019-10-01T07:21:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/boston-dynamics-begins-selling-spot-robot"},"modified":"2019-10-01T07:21:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:21:08","slug":"boston-dynamics-begins-selling-spot-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/boston-dynamics-begins-selling-spot-robot","title":{"rendered":"Boston Dynamics Begins Selling \u2018Spot\u2019 Robot"},"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\/wlkCQXHEgjA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For years, Boston Dynamics\u2019 only commercial product has been vaguely unsettling videos of robots moving in realistic ways. That changes today. No, the robots aren\u2019t getting less creepy. Boston Dynamics has a real commercial product: Spot. This quadrupedal robot is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/tech\/boston-dynamics-robot-dog-spot-now-on-sale-1805188\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shipping out to select companies<\/a>, but it could expand to general sales eventually.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen Spot (originally known as SpotMini) show up in various video demonstrations. You\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/278999-boston-dynamics-spotmini-robot-can-bust-a-move\"> seen it twerk<\/a>, and now you might see it work. Boston Dynamics isn\u2019t entirely certain what sort of work Spot will do, but that\u2019s why it\u2019s starting with a limited sales program. It wants to work closely with early adopters to evaluate Spot\u2019s usefulness in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the launch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/tag\/boston-dynamics\">Boston Dynamics<\/a> has posted a video (below) demonstrating the robot\u2019s features. Spot can walk at 3 miles per hour and has an average runtime of 90 minutes. When the battery runs dry, operators can swap in a new battery to get the robot up and running again immediately. It can even operate outside in temperatures ranging from &minus;4 to 113 degrees Fahrenheit (&minus;20 to 45 degrees Celsius). It\u2019s IP54 rated, so it can walk around in the rain, but don\u2019t steer Spot into a lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Boston Dynamics\u2019 only commercial product has been vaguely unsettling videos of robots moving in realistic ways. That changes today. No, the robots aren\u2019t getting less creepy. Boston Dynamics has a real commercial product: Spot. This quadrupedal robot is shipping out to select companies, but it could expand to general sales eventually. We\u2019ve seen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96858","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}