Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics is a robotics maker based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and owned by Hyundai Motor Group. Its industrial inspection offering pairs the Spot legged robot with Orbit, the company's software for running robot fleets. Orbit handles mission editing and scheduling, a map-based dashboard, remote driving, and performance summaries. On the inspection side it offers thermal, gauge-reading, PTZ camera, and acoustic inspections, along with alerts and AI visual inspection models called AIVI. With the 5.1 release, users can write inspections remotely in Site View, combine acoustic, thermal, and video data in a single multi-modal inspection, and track acoustic changes over time. Spot Cam 2 adds a 4K zoom camera, radiometric thermal imaging, and a spherical camera. The pairing suits large plants, energy and utility sites, and manufacturers that need repeatable rounds in areas that are hazardous or hard to reach. Orbit runs as an AWS-hosted cloud service, on a rack-mounted on-site Site Hub, or as a virtual machine. It connects to CMMS and WMS systems through APIs and webhooks, and low-code work order generation is in beta. Orbit is SOC 2 Type II certified and supports SSO. Neither the robot nor Orbit has a public price, and both are sold by quote. Third-party sites cite a 2020 launch price of about 74,500 USD for the Spot Explorer, but that figure is out of date. The main limitation is that this is a hardware-first purchase. Orbit is not a full maintenance system, so asset records, work order execution, and spare parts tracking stay in your CMMS. Spot also runs for about 90 minutes per charge.