Boston Dynamics’ Spot gets an SDK and co-starring role in an Adam Savage video

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Boston Dynamics' Spot gets an SDK and co-starring role in an Adam Savage video

This next year will be one of the most important since Boston Dynamics was founded back in 1992. After changing hands from Google to SoftBank, the robot maker is getting more aggressive about commercializing products, bringing Spot to market while Handle waits in the wings.

The news includes a new CEO, its first since founding. This week, Boston Dynamics is also making Spot's SDK available to the public via GitHub. That will go live tomorrow. It's a pretty big step for the company, and it plans to grow its first commercially available robot into a platform - something it's talked up for a while now.

VP Michael Perry offered up the following comment to TechCrunch:

The SDK enables a broad range of developers and non-traditional roboticists to communicate with the robot and develop custom applications that enable Spot to do useful tasks across a wide range of industries. Developers will still need to become part of the Early Adopter Program to lease the robot to execute their code, but all interested parties will now be able to view the SDK and existing early adopters can open source their own code. With the SDK, developers in the Early Adopter Program can create custom methods of controlling the robot, integrate sensor information into data analysis tools, and design custom payloads which expand the capabilities of the base robot platform.

One of our customers HoloBuilder is using the SDK to integrate Spot into their existing app. With what they've developed, workers can use a phone to teach Spot to document a path around a construction site and then Spot will autonomously navigate that path and take 360 images that go right into their processing software. O



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