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Boston Dynamics Spot

Boston Dynamics · US

Spot is a 33.8 kg battery-electric quadruped from Boston Dynamics (Hyundai Motor Group, US) carrying 14 kg of payload for roughly 90 minutes at up to 1.6 m/s, with 360-degree stereo depth perception, IP54 rating and autonomous Autowalk missions. Sold since June 2020 (initial list USD 74,500, now quote-based) with options including the 6-DOF Spot Arm, CORE I/O edge compute and EAP 2 lidar, it is fielded for industrial inspection, EOD/hazmat, public safety and military base security with over 2,000 units deployed.

Sources: https://bostondynamics.com/products/spot/ ; https://dev.bostondynamics.com/docs/concepts/arm/arm_specification.html ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot_(robot)

Specs

Launch year 2016
MTOW 33.8 kg
Payload 14 kg
Endurance 1.5 h
Speed 5.8 km/h
Propulsion Battery-electric quadruped; 12 electric actuators (3 per leg, hip/hip/knee) driven from a swappable 564 Wh lithium-ion pack (5.2 kg). Payload rails supply unregulated 35-58.8 V DC, 150 W per port.
Comm Five stereo depth-camera pairs around the body (360 deg horizontal FOV, ~4 m range, colour since Spot 3.0 hardware); optional payloads: Spot CAM+ / CAM+IR (PTZ 30x optical zoom + thermal), EAP 2 (Velodyne VLP-16 lidar, 100 m mapping), acoustic imager, gas sensors, radiation detectors via third parties
Price USD 74,500 (2020 list)
Price notes USD 74,500 (2020 public list price, Explorer kit); since ~2021 quote-only. Public procurement examples: Honolulu PD ~USD 150,000 (2021, configured unit); LAPD donated unit valued USD 277,917 (2023); NYPD ~USD 750,000 for two robots (2023, ~USD 375,000 each). Arm, CAM+, EAP 2 and Enterprise/Orbit licenses sold separately. The USD 74,500 online price was posted 16 Jun 2020 when Spot Explorer went on general US sale and was later withdrawn in favour of quotes. Third-party integrators in 2025-2026 estimate a base unit ~USD 75k, with Arm ~USD 100k, full Enterprise stack >USD 120k plus USD 15-25k/yr software; Boston Dynamics has not confirmed these figures. Public-safety configurations (CAM+IR, Arm, spare batteries, training) explain the USD 150k-375k municipal contract figures.

Suppliers

  • NVIDIA (US): processor: Jetson Xavier NX
  • Velodyne Lidar (now part of Ouster) (US): lidar: VLP-16 (Puck)
  • Carnegie Robotics LLC (US): eo_ir: Spot CAM+IR
  • Intel (RealSense) (US): image_sensor: RealSense D430 depth module (reported)

Sources

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