In a first for the UK’s National Trust, Boston Dynamics’ robotic dog Spot is being used to survey two Cold War weapons testing sites located in Orford Ness, Suffolk.
Spot the Dog: The robotic dog busy delivering data on dangerous construction sites for Balfour BeattySpot can change its speed and posture to suit the needs of various tasks. It can perform dynamic movements as well as trot, walk, and crawl.
Developers can adapt and program Spot for a variety of tasks using the software development kit and application programming interface Boston Dynamics provides.Russell Clement, the National Trust's general manager for Suffolk and Essex Coastal, told thethe organization is using Spot to perform assessments of these old facilities because navigating them without support is a “headscratcher.”
The pagodas, which were built in 1960, were two of six laboratories that served as test cells for the atomic bomb's environmental trials.
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