$74,500 will fetch you a spot: For the price of a luxury car, you can now buy a very smart, very capable, very yellow robot dog

摘要

For years, robotics company Boston Dynamics has been fielding questions about when its Spot robot, famous for its stunts on YouTube, was going to go on sale and how much it would cost. We finally have the answers: Boston Dynamics, in Waltham, Mass., has begun taking orders for Spot on its website, and the basic model is going for US $74,500.