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Boston Dynamics ships Spot and Orbit 5.2 with agentic task routing

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Boston Dynamics said it released Spot and Orbit 5.2, a software update that it describes as a connective layer between industrial data systems and its quadruped robot. The company claims the release adds agentic workflows that reason across a customer's existing systems to decide where Spot should be deployed, addressing data silos that it says slow digital transformation at industrial sites. The announcement points customers to release notes and an on-demand session covering current deployments, and directs existing users to update their software. The post does not name specific customers, quantify deployments, or provide independent verification of the workflow performance.
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