Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind Teach Spot to Reason

spectrum.ieee.org · 2026-06-25 · by Long Nguyen ·generic

Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind bring embodied AI to Spot, turning industrial inspections into safer, smarter, fully autonomous missions.

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Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor.

Photo of yellow Boston Dynamics robot dog using its arm to load laundry into a white basket.

​Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind Teach Spot to Reason​