Open Those Germy Doors For Robots

You know what your parents and school nurses always told you—don't touch those nasty doorknobs on the way out of the bathroom or really any doorknobs at all if you can avoid them.

And with Spot, you can. Spot can open the bathroom doors, and since it is the size of an actual dog, it won't feel so different from your own pet.

Even though it's not immediately clear how Spot will be ingrained in a company's workflow, it's pretty obvious that applications in construction will come first and it should be pretty interesting to see this new era of human-computer cooperation come together.

During a typical work week, for example, workers must completely survey entire construction sites to make sure everything is humming along to schedule and no employees are putting up beams where they don't belong.

That's time-consuming, so make Spot run around the site. He can go three miles per hour and can record video of the site with its 360-degree camera array.