The robot dog was tasked with maintaining order at the BMW plant (7 photos + 1 video)
A cyberdog named SpOTTO (in honor of the father and son Otto, the German inventors of the four-stroke internal combustion engine) sniffs out problem areas on the engine assembly line, frightening inexperienced workers with the clatter of its steel paws. 
Having gone under the wing of Hyundai, the well-known Boston Dynamics with its entire brood of robots switched to production tasks. The mass production of cyborgs is still as far away as it was a few years ago, but individual Spot robotic dogs have quietly proliferated all over the world.
One of them, called SpOTTO, now patrols assembly lines in the English Midlands, where 400,000 BMW and Mini TwinPower turbo engines are made annually. Loaded with television, thermal and acoustic sensors, the robotic dog is configured to search for possible locations of equipment overheating and compressed air leaks that could lead to an accident.
As operating experience accumulates and the territory under its control is thoroughly developed, SpOTTO can be assigned other responsibilities. For example, monitor what plant personnel are doing during working hours, even in the simplest mode of a self-propelled video recorder, capable of penetrating hard-to-reach places and climbing stairs.
