Duke Energy’s Oconee Nuclear Station has a new dog. “Spot” can sit, lie down and roll over. Unlike your average Rover, Spot is also trained to perform inspections of hard-to-access areas at the plant ...

Syracuse, N.Y. - An unconventional sidekick has been spotted working for the Syracuse Police Department. It’s a 72-pound, 2-foot-tall robotic dog named Spot. The robot, purchased with a $300,000 ...

Researchers with the University of Maryland are turning a dog they nicknamed Spot into a robot that can assess patients at mass casualty scenes.

In a simulated natural disaster, robotic drones from the University of Maryland's RoboScout Team arrived first, scanning the ...

The robot uses a 3D camera, touch and force sensors on its claws, and a self-training neural network to scale ladders.

Quadruped robots are fast evolving from backflipping tech demos to serious testbeds for computer systems navigating the real ...