Spot robot dog in the yard

It can also move on rough terrain, operate in adverse weather conditions, so as to reduce the movement of people, limiting their exposure to risk factors and increasing safety at work: it is the robot dog Spot, developed by Boston Dynamics and brought to the construction site together with Trimble. It was tested for the first time in Italy, in the construction site Chorus life of Bergamoamong the largest Italian urban regeneration projects, promoted by Polifin, developed by the Costim group, under construction by Impresa Percassi.

The robot dog is equipped with a series of devices, such as sensors for data collection, the Trimble X7 laser scanner for reality capture, cameras and various integrated tools for mapping the environment, which have the function of facilitating and automating the monitoring of work on construction sites. The system memorizes the routes and repeats them autonomously and is remotely controllable. The system has already been field tested in the United States, in Polandwhere he was employed to monitor the construction of a hospital facilitywhile in the United Kingdom that of a data center. The sensors and hardware of the Spot they will serve for the 3D scan of the shipyard’s production sites.

“Spot represents the perfect integration of digitization, automation and roboticsthe three main trends of the future in the construction world, which are fully in line with the Chorus Life project, which aims to use technology to improve people’s lives “, explains Ares Frassinetti, general manager of Impresa Percassi. The simultaneity and speed of the information collected by Spot becomes fundamental also in optical Bim. Through devices with which the workers will be equipped, the data will be returned immediately through augmented reality, which will be implemented through Microsoft’s Hololens. The use on the construction site seems much more reassuring than those to which the Spot robot dog got us used to itfrom neighborhood surveillance to military employment.