Spot the Robot Dog Trots Into the Big, Bad World

Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 6:12 a.m.

This autumn, after years of dropping view-amassing videos of Spot the robot dog fending off stick-wielding humans and opening doors for its pals, Boston Dynamics finally announced that the machine was hitting the market\u2014for a select few early adopters, at least. BD\u2019s people would be the first to tell you that they don\u2019t fully know what the hypnotically agile robot will be best at. Things like patrolling job sites, sure.