3D semantic scene-graph paper demonstrates open-vocabulary object retrieval on Spot - 2026-06-22 - Research Publication - The paper builds hierarchical 3D scene-graph forests using VLM and LLM reasoning over semantic relationships. The authors demonstrate downstream robotics use in an open-vocabulary object-retrieval task using a real-world… - source: arxiv.org
Trajectory-consistent flow-matching paper evaluates visuomotor policies on Spot - 2026-05-08 - Research Publication - The paper improves flow-matching policies for robust visuomotor policy learning by reducing compounding trajectory errors. Real-robot tasks include Boston Dynamics Spot and Franka FR3 systems. - source: arxiv.org
Simulation and Motion Control of the Spot Quadruped Robot in a Webots Virtual Environment: An Approach for Locomotion Algorithm Validation - 2026-04-17 - Research Publication - Simulation and Motion Control of the Spot Quadruped Robot in a Webots Virtual Environment: An Approach for Locomotion Algorithm Validation Zenodo Skip to main You are using an outdated browser. Cerne Tecnologia Description… - source: doi.org
CART terrain-adaptation paper evaluates context-aware locomotion on Spot - 2026-04-15 - Research Publication - The CART paper introduces context-aware terrain adaptation using temporal sequence selection for legged robots. The authors evaluate the method in simulation with Unitree Go2 and ANYmal-C and in real-world experiments with… - source: arxiv.org
Boston Dynamics demonstrates Spot task execution with Gemini Robotics - 2026-04-14 - Research Publication - For example, researchers at Meta have used Spot to test how an AI system could locate and retrieve objects it had never seen before. Contact Sales NAVIGATION Products Solutions Customers About Careers Merch Store RESOURCES… - source: bostondynamics.com
Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 embodied reasoning model - 2026-04-14 - Research Publication - The instrument reading evaluations were run with agentic vision enabled (except for Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 which doesn’t support it). Spot, a Boston Dynamics robot product , is able to visit the instruments throughout the… - source: deepmind.google
Sumo: Dynamic and Generalizable Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation - 2026-04-09 - Research Publication - The authors perform five independent optimization runs and track the maximum success rate over time across50trials. Both methods achieve similar asymptotic performance, but Sumo reaches the same performance with an… - source: arxiv.org
Morphology-conditioned world-model paper analyzes transfer from Spot to Unitree Go1 - 2026-04-09 - Research Publication - The paper proposes morphology conditioning for quadrupedal world models to reduce hardware lock-in. It analyzes how a world model trained on Boston Dynamics Spot fails on Unitree Go1 without embodiment-aware conditioning. - source: arxiv.org
Boston Dynamics adds Gemini Robotics to Orbit AIVI-Learning for Spot - 2026-04-08 - Research Publication - New Asset Support: Gauges, Pallets, and More As your facility& 8217;s needs evolve, Orbit AI evolves with them. Boston Dynamics Spot and Orbit now continuously learn about your facility with unprecedented depth, allowing… - source: bostondynamics.com
Robot body-language paper studies legible navigation intent with Boston Dynamics Spot - 2026-04-03 - Research Publication - The paper compares expressive motion, lights, text, and audio as communication modalities for robot navigation intent. The online video study uses Boston Dynamics Spot scenarios to measure how people interpret upcoming… - source: arxiv.org
Pandora paper demonstrates articulated scene-graph use with Boston Dynamics Spot - 2026-03-30 - Research Publication - Pandora builds articulated 3D scene graphs from egocentric vision to enrich robot scene representations. The paper demonstrates a Boston Dynamics Spot application retrieving concealed target items using a 3D scene graph. - source: arxiv.org
MEVIUS2: Practical Open-Source Quadruped Robot with Sheet Metal Welding and Multimodal Perception - 2026-03-23 - Research Publication - Various quadruped robots have been developed to date, and thanks to reinforcement learning, they are now capable of traversing diverse types of rough terrain. The authors developed MEVIUS2, an open-source quadruped robot… - source: arxiv.org
Underground-mine navigation paper validates GPU-free autonomous stack on Spot - 2026-03-04 - Research Publication - The paper presents a fully autonomous underground-mine navigation stack for Boston Dynamics Spot running on a low-power Intel NUC without GPU or network dependency. The system combines LiDAR-inertial odometry… - source: arxiv.org
Hilbert-augmented RL paper validates multi-robot coverage trajectories on Spot - 2026-02-23 - Research Publication - The paper augments DQN and PPO with Hilbert space-filling priors for decentralized coverage and exploration. The approach is validated on a Boston Dynamics Spot legged robot executing generated trajectories in indoor… - source: arxiv.org
Thermal-radiation-field paper validates fire-aware navigation on Boston Dynamics Spot - 2026-02-22 - Research Publication - The paper builds real-time thermal radiation fields from registered depth and thermal images for mobile robot navigation near fire. The approach is validated on a Boston Dynamics Spot robot in controlled experimental… - source: arxiv.org
World-model inspection paper deploys anomaly detection on Boston Dynamics Spot - 2026-02-18 - Research Publication - The paper combines supervised failure classification and anomaly detection for autonomous inspection tasks. It uses inspection feeds from office and industrial sites and demonstrates real-time deployment on Boston Dynamics… - source: arxiv.org
Heterogeneous Robot Collaboration in Unstructured Environments with Grounded Generative Intelligence - 2025-10-30 - Research Publication - SPINE-HT grounds language-model mission planning in robot capabilities through feasibility validation, capability-based assignment and online feedback. Real-world tests use Clearpath Jackal and Boston Dynamics Spot… - source: arxiv.org
DIV-Nav: Open-Vocabulary Spatial Relationships for Multi-Object Navigation - 2025-10-18 - Research Publication - Advances in open-vocabulary semantic mapping and object navigation have enabled robots to perform an informed search of their environment for an arbitrary object. The authors validate the system through extensive… - source: arxiv.org
Whole Body Model Predictive Control for Spin-Aware Quadrupedal Table Tennis - 2025-10-09 - Research Publication - Georgia Institute of Technol- ogy, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA 3RAI Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA Fig. Robot states are shown in gray with the paddle trajectory in blue. - source: arxiv.org
Spot terrain-classification paper uses proprioceptive sensing for traversability - 2025-08-22 - Research Publication - The paper develops a terrain classifier for Boston Dynamics Spot using proprioceptive signals from the robot instead of external perception. Field tests classify terrain types from leg and body signals such as joint… - source: arxiv.org
Manipulate-to-Navigate: Reinforcement Learning with Visual Affordances and Manipulability Priors - 2025-08-18 - Research Publication - The authors present two new manipulate-to-navigate simulation tasks called Reach and Door with the Boston Dynamics Spot robot. The first task tests whether the robot can select a good hand position in the target area such… - source: arxiv.org
UniTac: Whole-Robot Touch Sensing Without Tactile Sensors - 2025-07-10 - Research Publication - The authors introduced random perturba- tions in joint positions between data collections to ensure robustness. Using only the joint sensors, Uni- Tac is able to localize touches within an average of 7.2 centimeters on… - source: arxiv.org
VISTA: Open-Vocabulary, Task-Relevant Robot Exploration with Online Semantic Gaussian Splatting - 2025-07-01 - Research Publication - The authors present VISTA, an algorithm for Viewpoint-based Image Selection with Semantic Task Awareness. This experiment eval- uates the advantages of fusing semantic information and geometric uncertainty in robot… - source: arxiv.org
Spatial relationship dataset captures robot-acquired indoor scenes using Spot - 2025-06-14 - Research Publication - The paper introduces a spatial-relationship-aware robotics dataset of nearly 1,000 indoor images captured using Boston Dynamics Spot. The dataset labels object attributes, positions, and spatial relationships for… - source: arxiv.org