Scene 1. The household quadruped robot (robot dog) “Spot” looks at a whiteboard hanging on the wall. On the whiteboard is written the instruction, “Put all the shoes away in the shoe cabinet.” Spot picks up the shoes scattered on the floor with its mouth and neatly organizes them in the shoe cabinet.

Scene 2. In an industrial site where complex pipes are connected, Spot is looking at a thermometer installed mid-way. The robot dog has received the command, “Find the thermometer and read the temperature.” Spot determines that “the needle points between 50 and 100 and is almost at 80,” then responds, “The temperature is 80 degrees.”



Spot, the robot dog of Hyundai Motor Group’s robotics subsidiary Boston Dynamics, has acquired an artificial intelligence (AI) “brain.” Boston Dynamics released videos on its YouTube channel on the 14th (local time) and 15th showing tasks that Spot, equipped with Google’s AI “Gemini,” can perform in homes and industrial sites.


The video shows Spot reading and executing instructions written by a homeowner on a board in a house. It follows directions such as “Throw the trash in the trash can and put the laundry in the laundry basket” exactly as written, and later, in response to the instruction “Walk the dog,” it grabs the dog’s leash and heads out to the street.

In industrial sites as well, Spot monitors on-site safety and makes its own judgments. Looking at an open door, it determines on its own “whether the door should be open,” and it understands and executes commands given by a manager in natural language.


Boston Dynamics explained that these capabilities have been realized through collaboration with Google. It integrated AI visual inspection learning implemented on Boston Dynamics’ robot software platform “Orbit” with Google’s robot AI “Gemini Robotics ER 1.6” to create a “smarter Spot.”

A Boston Dynamics representative stated, “Spot has now moved beyond simply ‘seeing’ to a level where it can understand, judge, and act autonomously,” adding, “By analyzing information collected through various sensors with Gemini, it has established a foundation to evolve into an intelligent robot capable of recognizing and judging complex environments and even understanding the context of tasks.”

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