Spot, the Boston Dynamics robot that gets up on its own after a fall, counts RATP among its customers

The manufacturer describes Spot as a mobile sensor platform. It is used to monitor the day-to-day running of a site, its general condition or potentially dangerous situations.

According to Boston Dynamics, the robot can work without human intervention. It recharges itself, goes around new obstacles and gets back up if it falls.

Spot can carry up to 14 kg of equipment. The company also offers a software interface to adapt it to each use.

According to the company, more than 1,500 units are now in customers' hands.

The customers named on the page include RATP Infrastructures. It says it has more than 35,000 civil engineering structures to inspect and maintain, some of which are hard to reach or even dangerous to inspect.