Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robot Spot just got sharper eyes and a keener mind. Powered by Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, it now reads analog gauges, detects hazardous spills, and reasons through complex inspections. Several thousand Spots already patrol industrial sites. This upgrade pushes them further into autonomous decision-making. IEEE Spectrum detailed the integration in a report published April 15, laying out how the model equips Spot for tasks like scanning for debris or interpreting sight glasses ( IEEE Spectrum ). ‘With the new AI onboard, Spot is now able to autonomously look for dangerous debris or spills, read complex gauges and sight glasses, and call on tools like vision-language-action models when it needs help understanding what’s going on in the environment around it,’ the article states. Spot’s software, Orbit, pairs with AIVI-Learning to handle these jobs.…