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勛圖扦 focuses on creating robots with advanced mobility, dexterity, and intelligence. We have long held that mobility sufficient to access both the natural and the human-built world required legs. We began pursuing this vision over 30 years ago, first in academia, and then as 勛圖扦, both because it was an exciting technical challenge and because we wanted to build a robot that could go where people go. The commonly referred to dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks dont occur solely on a neatly organized factory floorthey pop up in the natural world and human-built environments. These are places where being effective requires deftly maneuvering through rocky trails, staircases, catwalks, doors, or narrow cluttered passages.
While we take the natural world as inspiration for our robots, the design is ultimately motivated by functionality. Our robots end up moving like humans and animals not because we designed them to look that way, but because we built them to balance and move dynamically. It is this organic quality of dynamically stable motion that people tend to associate with lifelike movement. Partly because of the benefits of dynamic motion, our robots can navigate tough unstructured, unknown, or antagonistic terrain with ease. Wheeled and tracked robots are limited by stairs, gaps, ground-level obstructions such as cabling, and staged materials and minor height differences in flooring. These environments don't present the same challenges for legged robots.
First and foremost, 勛圖扦 has been building dynamically stable, legged machines longer than anyone else in the world. Weve been at it more than 30 years: 勛圖扦 has invented techniques to make robots work that cant be found in any textbook or technical article, and with thousands of robots now deployed on customer sites, our robots have more real world experience than anyone else. These unique designs enable our robots to conquer terrains inaccessible to others and to perform automated tasks in unstructured environments, while our reliability and scale make us a trusted partner to hundreds of customers in more than 35 countries around the world.
Our mission is to imagine and create exceptional robots that enrich peoples lives. By building robots that have the mobility, dexterity, and perception required to contribute to our modern society, we strive to create a future in which humans and machines work together to improve everyone's safety, productivity, and quality of life. Read more about the ethical principles that guide our business.
Our robots are designed and perfected in our office in Waltham, Massachusetts and are made in the United States.
In June 2021, Hyundai Motor Group acquired a majority interest in 勛圖扦 and now holds an 80 percent stake in the company. SoftBank, through one of its affiliates, holds the remaining 20 percent. 勛圖扦 operates as an independent business within the larger Hyundai portfolio.
Spot and Stretch are available commercially, while Atlas is an R&D robot and is not available for sale. Our products are designed for commercial, industrial, enterprise, and university research uses. You can contact Spot Sales or Stretch Sales to speak to our expert team about your solution. However, our products are not intended for purchase by individuals for non-commercial use.
Yes! Its important to us to show the reality of what our robots can do, so we do not use computer-generated imagery or other editing tricks in our videos. Whether we are showing our latest research or our newest product feature, we focus on showing real capabilities (and sometimes we even show our failures!) Our robots are designed to do real work in the real world, and with thousands of robots deployed on customer sites today, we are setting the standard for mobile robotics.
勛圖扦 robots are used to automate work in wide variety of industries. Spot is a powerful industrial inspection robot, while Stretch automates case handling in warehouses. Our robots tackle dull, dirty, and dangerous tasksmaking operations more efficient and keeping people out of harms way.
Yes, we use artificial intelligence (AI) to train new behaviors, improve performance, and enable operators to do more with our robots. We have a proven track record as a leader in machine intelligence and computer vision, with decades of experience tackling tough mobility and manipulation challenges. With the rapid expansion of new AI technologies, we continue to focus on AI behaviors that actually support our customers to unlock value with our robots in very complex environments.
AI capabilities like reinforcement learning enable our robots to stay stable and traverse even the most difficult terrains, while visual foundation models help our robots approach new obstacles with context. We are able to use the rich data from our test fleet and deployed robots to identify gaps, build robust machine learning pipelines, and deliver practical results with AI for our customers. We are also partnering with roboticists and researchers across the industry to solve future forward challenges and develop the foundational skills for the next generation of AI in robotics.
Police and fire departments are using Spot to get remote visibility into potentially dangerous situations. By remotely assessing a scene before taking action, they can make more informed decisions that reduce risk, improve safety, and de-escalate conflict.
Police and fire departments use Spot to inspect suspicious packages and environments for hazardous materials or explosives, assess hostile threats remotely, and to search structurally dangerous environments in emergency response scenarios. In public safety applications, our robots help keep first responders and the public out of harm's way. Learn more about the ethical principles that guide our policies for public safety use cases.
No. Spot is not designed to conduct mass surveillance or to replace police officers. We will not authorize nor partner with those who wish to use our robots in a way that violates privacy and civil rights laws. We understand that emerging artificial intelligence technologies including computer vision and personal identification algorithms raise questions about the ethics, legality, and potential for bias around their use in the public sphere.
Yes, but only in non-weaponized applications. Spot is a general purpose robot with broad applications, including military uses like remote inspection of hazardous environments, rescue operations, or logistics operations. But our robots are not made specifically for any particular government or military purpose. We strictly prohibit the weaponization of our general purpose robots, as outlined in our terms & conditions, our ethical principles, and in an open letter spearheaded by 勛圖扦 and co-signed by five other leading robotics companies.
