Boston Dynamics has earned a high public profile with its four-legged Spot robots—”robot dogs,” in common shorthand. And Spot’s machine-vision-assisted detection capabilities make it an exceptionally perceptive watchdog. Software updates shipped in 2025 use Gemini Robotics-ER. The robotics reasoning model from Google’s DeepMind subsidiary enhances Spot’s ability to patrol a facility autonomously — going beyond just detecting malfunctions or hazards but analyzing them on the spot.

Boston Dynamics customers such as AB InBev, Cargill, and Michelin have seen nontrivial productivity gains since rolling out these updates. AB InBev found that it could step up Spot monitoring over a brewery by a factor of five compared to a year ago, while Michelin’s Spots led to 72 work orders to fix malfunctioning equipment detected by these dogs in the first few months of their deployment. Spot also serves in multiple law-enforcement and public-safety roles across the U.S.

Boston Dynamics’s new bipedal, humanoid Atlas robot—deployed by Hyundai Motor Group—brings arms and fingers (three per hand plus a thumb) to the task of improving industrial productivity. Atlas, too, will benefit from the synthetic smarts of Gemini Robotics-ER.

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