How ‘Spot’ The Robot Dog Is Set To Patrol The World’s Dangerous Industrial Sites

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How ‘Spot’ The Robot Dog Is Set To Patrol The World’s Dangerous Industrial Sites
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How ‘Spot’ the robot dog is set to patrol the world’s dangerous industrial sites:

Law enforcement is not going to be their primary market. Rather, the early adopters for Spot so far have been industrial companies. In particular, Boston Dynamics says they expect a lot more interest from the energy sector, especially now that the Biden Administration is scrapping Trump-era actions and boosting regulation of methane emissions that will require companies to better monitor equipment for leaks.

Acoustic sensors enable Spot to listen for anomalies in engine rooms so loud that after just a few minutes “people have to take the rest of the day off because their ears need to resettle,” says Perry. By listening every day Spot learns a noise baseline, and if one day the cacaphony is too many decibels above normal, it’s a fair bet there’s a problem.

“It doesn’t matter the terrain or if the environment is changing,” he says — if instructed to go take pictures at 50 places in a facility it will uses its cameras to look around, create a map and figure out how to get where it needs to go. This has proven handy during the renovation of Battersea Power Station in London, where Spot has been documenting the progress of work forarchitects under the hypothesis that keeping close tabs on progress will help reduce cost overruns.

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