Product profile
Spot Arm
Spot Arm is Boston Dynamics' manipulation attachment for the Spot quadruped. The arm gives Spot a 6-DOF gripper, near-meter reach, integrated sensing and w...
Facts
- Company
- Boston Dynamics
- Product type
- mobile_manipulator
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- mobile manipulation on quadruped robots
- Website
- https://bostondynamics.com/products/spot/arm/
About Spot Arm
Spot Arm is a six-degree-of-freedom manipulator mounted on the Spot quadruped. Its gripper, wrist camera and integrated sensing support grasping, dragging, lifting and precise interaction with doors, valves, switches and industrial equipment.
Boston Dynamics’ whole-body controller coordinates the arm and quadruped legs, allowing Spot to reposition its body while manipulating an object. Operators can use remote control, autonomous actions and API-based applications. The arm extends Spot into hazardous inspection and intervention workflows.
Market context
robotic_arm, robot, Spot, Mobile Manipulator Attachment, mobile_manipulator, Mobile Manipulator Attachment, mobile_manipulator, mobile_manipulator_platform, mobile_manipulator
Summary
Type: Robot arm
Core: Spot manipulator
Function: Mobile manipulation
Audience: Spot operators
Specifications
- carrying_capacity
- Drag up to 25 kg kg
- degrees_of_freedom
- 6 degrees of freedom dof
- lighting
- In-gripper LED illuminator
- payload_capacity_kg
- Lift up to 11 kg kg
- reach_m
- Almost one meter reach
- sensor_suite
- ToF and IMU sensors plus in-gripper 4K RGB camera
Operations
- Environment
- industrial inspection, remote operations and mobile manipulation workflows
- Primary user
- Spot operators, industrial teams and robotics developers
- Role
- grasping, dragging, placing and equipment interaction
- Interaction model
- operator_supervised
- Mobility class
- robot arm attachment for quadruped platform
- Product detail
- robotic_arm, robot, Spot, Mobile Manipulator Attachment, mobile_manipulator, Mobile Manipulator Attachment, mobile_manipulator, mobile_manipulator_platform, mobile_manipulator
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Boston Dynamics expands Createc reseller and technology partnership — 2026-08-03
- Hyundai shareholders pursue acquisition of SoftBank’s remaining Boston Dynamics stake — 2026-07-16
- Boston Dynamics evaluates Korean suppliers for Atlas production — 2026-06-29
- Boston Dynamics announces 323,000-square-foot Waltham robotics and AI center — 2026-06-24
- 3D semantic scene-graph paper demonstrates open-vocabulary object retrieval on Spot — 2026-06-22
- Boston Dynamics reportedly set to become wholly owned by Hyundai — 2026-06-19
- Trajectory-consistent flow-matching paper evaluates visuomotor policies on Spot — 2026-05-08
- Boston Dynamics sees C-suite departures amid pressure to accelerate Atlas production — 2026-05-01