Name: Boston Dynamics Spot hands-on: new dog, new tricks
Uploaded: 2020-10-26T18:35:47.000Z
Duration: 5 min 46 s
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So you've probably seen this robot before,

And it does a lot more than just make videos for the internet.

Boston Dynamics has been putting Spot to work,

and seeing how this kind of robot holds up in the real world.

the striking thing is how small and sturdy it is.

It's just under three feet high and weighs 70 pounds,

A lot of the movements you're seeing here

It knows how to climb stairs, how to avoid walls,

Of course, we've seen walking robots before,

but few of them had Spot's sense of balance.

tell it exactly how its weight is distributed.

a protocol kicks in, telling it to find surer foot.

When it does fall, there's a protocol for righting itself,

The simplest way to use Spot is this controller,

The left joystick moves Spot forward and back,

while the right joystick spins it around.

You can also use the camera view to see what Spot is seeing,

mostly because there isn't that much to control,

I was able to send Spot wherever I wanted,

You can tell it's more designed for automation

Boston Dynamics is hoping that a lot of the time,

it walked through earlier with human assistance.

That could mean checking all the gauges on an oil rig,

This version of Spot mostly knows how to navigate spaces,

but the plan is for it to carry more sophisticated tools

Industry partners can also build their own modules

and Spot can check a whole facility for gas leaks.

It's a completely new way for computer programs

to interact with the physical world, automating tasks that would

otherwise be impossible to do without a human being.

There's also just straight-up entertainment.

It's really fun to watch this kind of robot

particularly if you have 10 or 15 of them in unison.

Right now, Boston Dynamics has about 60 beta units.

That's the yellow guy you're seeing here,

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