Case Study: Boston Dynamics achieves smarter edge-based operations with IBM

Mobile robots outfitted with AI extend the workforce

Boston Dynamics faced a challenge common in industrial plants: collecting equipment data safely and efficiently without relying on workers to manually inspect machines or installing expensive sensors on everything. Working with IBM and its IBM Maximo Application Suite, the company aimed to give its mobile robot Spot the ability to gather and interpret machine telemetry at the edge.

IBM helped Boston Dynamics add AI and edge analytics to Spot so it can inspect equipment in real time, detect anomalies, and automatically generate work orders when needed. The result is reduced instrumentation and cloud-storage costs, faster problem detection, improved uptime, and safer, more efficient workers who can focus on higher-value tasks while Spot handles hazardous inspections.

Boston Dynamics

Michael Perry

Vice President of Business Development