---
title: "Boston Dynamics CEO Wants Its Robodogs to Fight Each Other"
description: "Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert told the audience at re:MARS he thinks the company's SpotMini robodogs could one day battle for our entertainment."
date: "2019-06-05"
modified: "2019-06-05"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/boston-dynamics-spotmini-fight"
categories:
  - "Boston Dynamics"
  - "Robot Dogs"
  - "Robotics"
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "boston dynamics"
  - "RoboDogs"
  - "spotmini"
  - "the digest"
---

# Boston Dynamics CEO Wants Its Robodogs to Fight Each Other

![Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert told the audience at re:MARS he thinks the company's SpotMini robodogs could one day battle for our entertainment.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/boston-dynamics-spotmini-fight.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Boston Dynamics/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Battle Bots

On Tuesday, Amazon kicked off [re:MARS](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-conference-ai-remars>) — a four-day conference focused on robotics, machine learning, automation, and space — and one of the first speakers to take the stage was Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert.

While the [highlight](<https://twitter.com/DaveLeeBBC/status/1136074738499899392>) (or perhaps lowlight) of his presentation may have been the moment one of the company's SpotMini robot dogs went haywire, Raibert still expects great things for the bot's future — including a career fighting other robots for our entertainment.

## Fighting Words

According to a newly published *Quartz* [story](<https://qz.com/1635500/boston-dynamics-spot-may-be-used-as-a-battle-bot/>), Raibert thinks people might use SpotMinis as fighting avatars in a “network game with physical actors."

He also played a video for the audience in which four SpotMinis knocked around a blue ball, perhaps signaling their potential use in a less combative sport.

https://twitter.com/b0yle/status/1136075861344436224

## Will Work for Battery Power

Whether [SpotMinis](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/boston-dynamics-robodog-twerk-moonwalk>) turn out to be the gladiators of the twenty-first century or not, the bots are well on their way to finding work in [construction](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/spotmini-boston-dynamics-construction>) — several Japanese construction companies are already testing the ability to the robot dogs to oversee worksite progress, Raibert [told *The Verge*](<https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/5/18653710/boston-dynamics-first-commercial-robot-spot-demo-amazon-remars-conference-marc-raibert>) at re:MARS.

"There’s a remarkable number of construction companies we’re talking to," he added. "But we have some other applications that are very promising — \[including\] in hostile environments where the cost of having people there is high."

Like the battle arena, perhaps?

**READ MORE:** [Boston Dynamics’ first consumer product might be a battle bot](<https://qz.com/1635500/boston-dynamics-spot-may-be-used-as-a-battle-bot/>) \[*Quartz*\]

**More on SpotMini:** *[Watch Boston Dynamics’ Lazy Robodog March Around a Construction Site Without Helping at All](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/spotmini-boston-dynamics-construction>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)