Legged & humanoid robots
Quadruped (robot dog)
A four-legged robot that walks over rough ground and stairs carrying cameras, gas sensors or thermal imagers on autonomous inspection rounds.
Good at
Routine inspection rounds in plants built for people: stairs, gratings, cluttered floors.
Watch out for
Short runtimes; expensive; a wheeled robot or fixed sensor is often cheaper where the floor allows.
Specs that matter for this type
- Payload
- Runtime / flight time
- Top speed
- Weight
- Ingress protection (IP)
- Operating temperature
- Max step height
- Sensors
Jobs it does
Usually the main robot for
- Reality capture & 360 site documentation
- Industrial plant autonomous inspection rounds
- Research robot platforms
- Robot dog (quadruped) rental
Also used for
Models we've catalogued
How to read this. Specs come from each maker's own spec page or datasheet, with the link and the date we checked it. Blank means the maker doesn't publish it (or we haven't found it). Scores are a whirrwork assessment, not a lab test: we only score a model when independent trials or tests exist. Methodology.
| Model | Payload | Runtime / flight time | Top speed | Weight | Operating temperature | Max step height | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Dynamics Spot Boston Dynamics | 14 kg | 90 min | 1.6 m/s | 33.8 kg | -20 to 55 °C | 0.3 m | 58/100 |
| Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Ghost Robotics | 10 kg | 189 min | 2.4 m/s | 51 kg | -40 to 55 °C | – | Not enough evidence to rate |
| Unitree B2 Unitree Robotics | 40 kg | 300 min | 6 m/s | 60 kg | – | 0.4 m | Not enough evidence to rate |
| Unitree Go2 Unitree Robotics | – | 120 to 240 min | – | 15 kg | – | – | Not enough evidence to rate |
Also called: quadruped, quadruped robot.