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Spot Arm
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Spot Arm
Boston Dynamics🇺🇸6-DOF manipulator add-on for the Spot quadruped robot. Enables Spot to grasp, lift, carry, place and drag objects, and to perform constrained tasks like opening doors, turning valves and flipping switches.
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Specification
- 6 degrees of freedom; ~1 m reach
- Lift up to 11 kg, drag up to 25 kg
- Integrated 4K RGB camera + LED in gripper
- Time-of-flight sensors and IMU in the arm
- Tablet teleop and Spot API autonomous behaviors
Price
No public price — contact the supplier for a quote.
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Evidence-graded claims from the Boston Dynamics deep report
Spot has achieved hundreds of enterprise deployments across energy, construction, mining, and public safety sectors
Multiple independent sources corroborate scale: named customer deployments at Pomerleau, Hensel Phelps, AkerBP, and Denver International Airport are documented, and IEEE Spectrum and TechCrunch confirmed commercial availability since June 2020 — though total unit count remains vendor-reported and unaudited [6, 7, 9, 14].
from Boston Dynamics deep report →Stretch has secured a $10M deployment deal with NFI and a 1,000+ unit MOU with DHL Group for global rollout
Both deals are confirmed by press releases issued directly by NFI Industries and DHL Group — independent third-party companies — with the NFI pilot located in Savannah, GA (2023) and DHL MOU signed May 2025; however, the DHL MOU is not a firm purchase order and full rollout remains unverified [10, 12].
from Boston Dynamics deep report →Boston Dynamics has formed partnerships with Toyota Research Institute and Google DeepMind to advance general-purpose humanoid and AI-driven robotics capabilities
The Toyota Research Institute partnership is confirmed by an official Toyota USA Newsroom press release [13]; the Google DeepMind partnership is cited in the dossier from official news sources [11], though the specific technical deliverables and timelines from both partnerships remain publicly unverified.
from Boston Dynamics deep report →
Boston Dynamics' showcase videos accurately represent typical real-world operational performance of its robots
Community skepticism about cherry-picked demos exists [16], but real-world commercial deployments at NFI, DHL, AkerBP, and construction firms provide meaningful corroboration that the robots function operationally; however, no independent controlled benchmark study has compared video performance to typical deployment conditions.
from Boston Dynamics deep report →
Atlas (electric humanoid) is in active industrial deployment and represents a production-ready general-purpose humanoid robot
Official sources and the CES 2026 Best Robot award confirm Atlas exists and is in R&D/early industrial deployment phase [11, 13], but no independent source documents production-scale deployment or verified general-purpose task performance; community sources note Atlas operational progress is not publicly tracked [15, 17].
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