Boston Dynamics

“Spot has fully met our expectations…even during the pilot phase, the Energy Dog detected a steam leak at 400 to 500 degrees.”

“To me, that’s our biggest success so far.”

“I loved driving it in the hallways, going up and down stairs, learning the new features, like coding. It definitely gave me a step up in college.”

“There’s never been a better robot for the classroom than Spot. It’s the gold standard.”

“As soon as we can get the resources, these students do giant things. They have made everything from remote-controlled lawn mowers and solar-powered refrigerators to facial recognition devices and prosthetic hands.”

“The friendships and relationships I formed…were extremely valuable. Meeting and being surrounded by like-minded individuals who looked like me and were passionate about engineering—they served as powerful role models. The engineers I spoke to influenced me to go into mechanical engineering.”

“It’s almost like an extra man helping them out. We can do what we do, but now we got a little support.”

“You know, it’s always reliable, it’s always increasing our productivity, and therefore we’re meeting demands even more.”

“I love it. I think Stretch has improved my whole life. I really do.”

“Arvato is the most technology driven 3PL logistics provider,”

“Seasonal planning is very critical to Arvato operations,”

“The multipicking has really enabled us to achieve higher throughputs, especially with our smaller, lighter cartons,”

“That really showed machine learning and decision-making similar to what a human would do,”

“It was probably the easiest implementation we’ve had as far as workforce training goes,”

“Stretch was kind of that last puzzle piece that we were missing to have a true automated loose-load unload solution. Stretch can unload everything that we bring in, in a loose-loaded form. It allows us to improve the back end, the sortation, with just a little bit of our logic change, and we’re able to really achieve higher throughputs than we ever imagined.”

“Overall, the perception of Stretch has been very positive,”

“We had a vision for completely automating a carton from loose-loaded in a container all the way to the outbound process. We already had the scanning and systematic pallet building and sortation. Stretch was kind of that last puzzle piece that we were missing to have a true automated loose-load unload solution… It allows us to improve the back end, the sortation, with just a little bit of our logic change, and we’re able to really achieve higher throughputs than we ever imagined.”

“In terms of ROI, by having robots perform the patrols currently carried out by humans, personnel can focus on more critical tasks that only humans can do. Also, anomalies can be detected early from a remote location. As a result, we believe that an improvement in equipment operational efficiency is expected.”

“The controls are highly intuitive and easy to use. Even first-time users can operate it freely right away.”

“Power plants are locations where hydrogen sulfide is generated. Thus, I believe that ensuring worker safety is one of the major advantages of using Spot.”

“Since the power plant is quite far from our Naruko office, in the event of an incident, sending a robot to the site first to assess the situation could be a highly effective solution.”

“Robots execute missions with high accuracy, without mistakes, and with strong reproducibility, enabling the accumulation of large amounts of data.”

““In terms of ROI, by having robots perform the patrols currently carried out by humans, personnel can focus on more critical tasks that only humans can do.””

““The safety of our employees is of the utmost importance,” he says. “So, if we can further remove them from harm’s way and still allow them to be efficient and effective, we are doing a good job.””

““Being able to have Spot do inspections controlled by human operators gives an extra layer of safety and extra layer of troubleshooting for technicians and engineers,””