Spot
The best-known robot dog is an industrial inspection tool, not a home product. Businesses buy it for plant rounds, thermal and acoustic inspections and security patrols, managed through Boston Dynamics' Orbit software. It is built by a US company, so the 2026 FCC foreign-robot rule does not block it.
- Price
- $74,500Shipped $74,500 was the 2020 list price for the Spot Explorer kit. Boston Dynamics now sells by quote only; public procurement records show configured units at roughly $150,000-$375,000.
- Status
- ShippingShipped Commercially sold since June 2020; more than 1,500 deployed with enterprise customers
- Height
- 0.61 m
- Weight
- 33.8 kg
- Payload
- 14 kg
- Runtime
- 1.5 h
- Top speed
- 1.6 m/s
- Degrees of freedom
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- Made in
- United States
A dash means the maker has not published it. Values with a label are claims, not measurements.
Trust and legalWhat these mean
Does a remote human drive it?
Partly
Driven from a tablet, or runs pre-recorded autonomous inspection routes (Autowalk/Orbit missions); release 5.1 added autonomous door opening and security patrols.
US FCC
Authorized
Sold in the US since 2020 with FCC Part 15 compliance; FCC ID not located. US-designed and built in Massachusetts, so it is not the target of the July 2026 foreign-produced robot listing (domestic-content status not publicly documented). Boston Dynamics publicly backed the rule.
Europe
On sale in the EU and UK since September 2020.
Status history3 dated events
- Shipping
Spot and Orbit 5.1 add Spot Cam 2, arm-free door opening and security patrol missions Boston Dynamics releases Spot and Orbit 5.1 with new Spot Cam (The Robot Report)
- Shipping
Sales open in Canada, the EU and the UK; about 250 units sold or leased at that point Boston Dynamics' Spot robot now for sale in Canada, Europe (The Robot Report)
- Shipping
Any US business can buy Spot Explorer for $74,500 Now any US business can buy Boston Dynamics' Spot robot for $74,500 (TechCrunch)
PromisesLedger
Sources for specs and status
- Spot product page (Boston Dynamics)27 Sep 2026
- Now any US business can buy Spot for $74,500 (TechCrunch)16 Jun 2020
- Boston Dynamics releases Spot and Orbit 5.1 (The Robot Report)21 Jan 2026
- Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are guarding data centers (Fortune)17 Mar 2026
- FCC Covered List Bans New Foreign Mobile Robots in US (IEEE Spectrum)1 Aug 2026
Last updated 27 Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Send a correction.