Boston Dynamics doesn’t list a price for Spot. As of October 19, 2026, the Spot product page has no price and no checkout, only a “Contact Sales” button. The robot is sold to companies, government agencies and universities through a quote, and Boston Dynamics says its products are not intended for purchase by individuals for non-commercial use.
The number you’ll see quoted most, $74,500, is the June 2020 launch price of the Spot Explorer developer kit, when Boston Dynamics first let US businesses order Spot online, as VentureBeat reported at the time. That kit included the robot, two batteries, a charger, a tablet controller, cases and the Python API packages. It isn’t a current list price.
Who can buy Spot
The Boston Dynamics FAQ sets out three conditions:
- Buyer type: Spot is designed for commercial, industrial, enterprise and university research use. Individuals buying for personal use are outside that.
- Screening: every purchase request is checked against the US government’s denied persons and entities lists before a sale is approved.
- Terms of sale: buyers must agree that Spot won’t be used to harm or intimidate people or animals, or be used as a weapon or fitted to hold one. Breaking those terms voids the warranty and cuts off updates, service, repair and replacement.
The FAQ also says Spot isn’t meant for home use. It’s a roughly 70 lb industrial robot meant for trained operators.
What goes into a Spot quote
Because there’s no single price, the total depends on what you add to the base robot. From the official pages, these are the parts a quote is built from:
- The robot: Spot itself, with battery and the tablet controller.
- Spot Arm: an attached arm for opening doors, pulling levers and picking up objects (Arm page).
- Payloads: extra sensors and hardware, such as inspection cameras, thermal imaging, acoustic sensors and laser scanners (payload page).
- Docking: a dock lets Spot recharge itself between autonomous missions.
- Orbit software: fleet management, site maps and inspection data in one place (Orbit page).
- Service: the Spot CARE extended service plan and training through Boston Dynamics University.
Third-party sites publish estimates for configured systems well above $74,500, especially with the arm and inspection payloads. Boston Dynamics doesn’t confirm any of them, so treat them as rough indicators and compare actual quotes line by line.
How to start a purchase
- Fill in the Spot sales form with your organization and the work you want Spot to do (inspection, public safety, research and so on).
- Boston Dynamics or an authorized partner follows up to scope the configuration: arm, payloads, dock, software.
- Your request is screened and you agree to the terms and conditions of sale.
- Your team trains on operation, from tablet driving to setting up autonomous inspection routes.
Spot’s specs
From the official spec sheet on the Spot page:
- Weight: 33.8 kg (74.5 lb) with battery
- Height: 610 mm (24 in) default walking height
- Speed: up to 1.6 m/s
- Terrain: slopes up to ±30°, steps up to 300 mm (11.8 in)
- Runtime: about 90 minutes average, 60 minutes to recharge, 564 Wh battery. Payloads and conditions change the runtime.
- Payload: up to 14 kg (30.9 lb) on the back rails
- Weather and temperature: IP54, operating from -20°C to 55°C
- Sensing: 360° obstacle sensing with a 4 m range
Boston Dynamics says more than 1,500 Spots are with customers. Named users on the Spot page include bp, National Grid, Turner Construction and Woodside Energy.
What individuals can buy instead
If you want a quadruped for a lab, a classroom or personal projects, Unitree sells robot dogs at listed prices. Its store lists the Go2 from $1,600 as of October 19, 2026, before shipping and import duties. It’s a far smaller and less rugged machine, and Unitree sells several Go2 versions, so check which one supports your own code before ordering.
Boston Dynamics’ other products follow the same sales-only model. The FAQ says Stretch, its warehouse box-moving robot, is commercially available, while the Atlas humanoid is at an early stage of commercialization. For more robots with listed prices, see our Unitree G1 price guide, and for how legged robots compare with wheeled ones for deliveries, see wheeled vs quadruped delivery robots.