# Spot at California: deployment

Canonical ID: `cbf8791f-e301-418c-9464-cdd606c4c2ee`

[Boston Dynamics](/companies/boston-dynamics.md) and Ghost Robotics selling robot dogs to data center operators for perimeter security and facility monitoring. Operators seeing payoffs from deployment.

## Key facts

- **Use case:** Perimeter security and facility monitoring
- **Competitors:** Boston Dynamics + Ghost Robotics

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-08-17_

- **Slug:** boston-dynamics-spot-data-center-security-2026
- **Status:** operational
- **Model:** [Spot](/models/boston-dynamics-spot.md) (id: `223bb4ff-a2d7-4afd-825d-f6b15c34afa9`)
- **Category:** [Quadrupeds](/quadrupeds)
- **Company:** [Boston Dynamics](/companies/boston-dynamics.md) (id: `e07a6384-c6a0-4a69-8abe-7fcea11bc302`)
- **Location:** [California](/locations/united-states/california.md) (id: `fdf937a9-5eeb-4e8d-a514-ef860b351b30`)
- **Operator:** [Boston Dynamics](/companies/boston-dynamics.md) (id: `e07a6384-c6a0-4a69-8abe-7fcea11bc302`)

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (1)

1. https://www.insider.com/2026/03/16/robot-dogs-data-centers

## Common questions

### What is the Spot deployment at California?

Spot, built by Boston Dynamics, is recorded as a deployment at California on the DEPLOY registry. Boston Dynamics operates the deployment directly.

### Who operates Spot at California?

Boston Dynamics, the manufacturer of Spot, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.

### Have there been incidents at the Spot deployment at California?

No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.


_API: GET /v1/robots/cbf8791f-e301-418c-9464-cdd606c4c2ee · feeds: GET /v1/feeds?deploymentId=cbf8791f-e301-418c-9464-cdd606c4c2ee · canonical URL: /deployments/boston-dynamics-spot-data-center-security-2026_