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Spot Enterprise and Spot Arm
An upgraded Spot that docks and recharges itself for long autonomous missions, launched with an arm and gripper and the Scout remote-operation software.
- Price
- —base Spot was $74,500
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Turned Spot into a self-charging mobile manipulator that can open doors, turn valves and pull levers.
Real-world use
Sold from 2 February 2021; Boston Dynamics had sold over 400 Spots by then.
Maker
Boston DynamicsCompany · founded 1992 · Waltham, Massachusetts, United StatesOwned by Hyundai Motor Group since June 2021 (80% stake bought from SoftBank for about $880M; SoftBank kept about 20%).
Public attention
How much public attention Spot Enterprise and Spot Arm gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. It runs recorded inspection missions by itself and docks to recharge; Scout lets an operator drive it remotely when needed.
- Hands
- Spot Arm: a body-mounted manipulator with gripper that grasps, lifts, carries, places and drags objects, opens valves, pulls levers, turns handles and opens push and pull doors, manually or semi-autonomously
- Sensors & vision
- Spot CAM+IR thermal and image payload for inspection rounds
- Battery & power
- Spot Enterprise is self-charging and ships with a docking station
- AI & software
- Scout web-based fleet control from a virtual control room, with pre-programmed autonomous missions or manual driving (later succeeded by Orbit)
- Other details
- Enterprise version upgraded safety, communications, Wi-Fi range, payload-port flexibility and large data offload
Named suppliers:Trimble
Lineage
Every Boston Dynamics machine in order.
RHex2001Research
BigDog2005Retired
LittleDog2005Retired
RiSE2006Retired
Sand Flea2012Retired
LS3 (Legged Squad Support System)2012Retired
Cheetah2012Retired
WildCat2013Retired
Spot (now called Spot Classic)2015Retired
SpotMini2016Retired
Handle2017Retired
Handle (logistics version)2019Retired
Spot2019Commercial
Stretch2021Commercial- Spot Enterprise and Spot Arm2021Commercial
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedbase Spot was $74,500
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- More than 400 Spots in the field at launch (February 2021)
- Where it is sold or used
- Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
News
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- Boston Dynamics adds Spot Arm, Spot Enterprise and Scout
Boston Dynamics expanded the Spot line with a self-docking Enterprise model, a manipulator arm and Scout fleet-control software.
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Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | Spot Enterprise and Spot ArmBoston Dynamics |  Vision 60Ghost Robotics (majority-owned by LIG Nex1 since 2024)Same job: inspection · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots |  ANYmal DANYboticsSame job: inspection · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots |  Spirit 40Ghost RoboticsSame job: inspection · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2021-02-02 | 2021-05 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | 69 cm | 89 cm | — |
| Weight | — | 51 kg | 55.7 kg | — |
| Joints | — | 12 | 12 | — |
| Speed | — | 9 km/h | 4.7 km/h | — |
| Payload | — | 10 kg | 10 kg | — |
| Battery | — | 3.1 h | 2 h | — |
| Price | — | $100,000 | — | — |
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