The Spot dog robot from Boston dynamics costs ~$70,000 (base, no payload) and is marketed for inspection work. 🤔
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It’s a cool robot but I’m struggling to come up with a scenario where I wouldn’t just put 70k worth of networked sensors all over my plant. Or a bunch of sensors and a few simpler wheeled robots.
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Come to think of it dogs are a pretty useless form factor unless you’re a hunter. Their main no-companion feature is their nose. If you could put just the nose at the end of a stick, you’d dispense with the furry backend.
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A monkey might have been better. Can climb. Could add a prehensile tail.
Still, it’s cool and general enough I’d buy one if the price came down to like $1000 and it was much smaller for domestic indoor use. Chihuahua class rather than golden retriever.
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When the inspection site is dangerous to put sensors. But I couldn’t think of other use cases
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So @SpaceX is already using @BostonDynamics Spot for launch site inspections. It would be interesting to see some low and micro-gravity experiments with Spot
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I still like biomorphic robots, just maybe not as a business solution type product. They’re much more open-ended.
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Thinking too gig. At BigCo, a purchasing concern worth hundreds of thousands of dollars is how much you can make your server room tour look like an LED factory threw up in the dark.
Robo dogs walking past the tour group is definitely worth more than $70k.
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Seems like $70k of flying drones would be better.
That must be why it has a hand/neck for opening doors.




