The commercial quadruped that defined a category. Boston Dynamics opened public sales of Spot in 2020 at a base price of $74,500, and it has since been deployed across inspection, monitoring, and data-collection workflows at industrial sites — refineries, construction projects, power plants, automotive plants — with named operators including Hyundai (its parent), ConocoPhillips, and BP.
The chassis is 1100 mm long, 500 mm wide, and stands 610 mm tall at default walking height. The 33.8 kg total weight includes the 564 Wh battery, which delivers roughly 90 minutes of average operation between 60-minute recharges. The platform carries up to 14 kg of payload, with unregulated DC power available to each payload port across a 35 to 58.8 V range at up to 150 W. IP54 sealing and an operating temperature window of -20 to 55 C give it the environmental envelope expected of a worksite-grade tool.
Spot's locomotion stack delivers a maximum walking speed of 1.6 m/s with a 30 degree maximum slope capability and 300 mm step height. Twelve degrees of freedom (three actuators per leg) plus a 360 degree horizontal field of view from the perception sensor stack underpin the navigation autonomy that makes routine inspection feasible without a teleoperator in the loop.