# Boston Dynamics Unleashes New Spot Variant for Research > Get ready for some wild new quadruped skills

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/boston-dynamics-unleashes-new-spot-variant-for-research-2/
- Published: 2024-04-04T10:00:36-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image caption: With access to Spot’s new API, researchers can teach the robot new tricks. Image credit: Boston Dynamics. Article by Evan Ackerman. IEEE Spectrum – March 28, 2024. At Nvidia GTC last week, Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders gave a talk about deploying AI in real-world robots—namely, how Spot is leveraging reinforcement learning to get better at locomotion (We spoke with Saunders last year about robots falling over). And Spot has gotten a lot better—a Spot […] Click here to view original web page at spectrum.ieee.org