Spot can automate sensing and inspection, capture data, and explore dangerous or hard-to-reach areas. | Source: Boston Dynamics
Analog Studios FZ LLC and Boston Dynamics Inc. this week announced an exclusive regional alliance to deploy physical intelligence across the United Arab Emirates, beginning with Boston Dynamics’ Spot robots.
The companies said initial use will focus on practical outcomes. These include park inspections, environmental and accessibility monitoring, and preventive maintenance that improves everyday livability and operational responsiveness.
“We are thrilled to be working with the amazing Analog team on this groundbreaking implementation,” said Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics. “Our robots paired with Analog’s AI platform will unlock new use cases in urban planning and citizen services by bringing advanced intelligence to the real, physical world. The development of advanced world models will accelerate our industrial inspection capabilities with Spot and expand our robot use from an enterprise asset management tool into a complete facility monitoring solution, including safety, quality, compliance, security, and predictive maintenance.”
Abu Dhabi, UAE-based Analog will become Boston Dynamics’ sole certified reseller, integrator, and service partner for the UAE. The company will also be Boston Dynamics’ premier partner for the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond. In addition to distribution, the partners plan to co-develop a next-generation robotics platform, embedding Analog’s intelligence.
Analog operates a country-scale model in the UAE
Analog and Boston Dynamics said they intend to contribute use case-specific insights from their deployments to the UAE’s country-scale world model. With this foundation model, operators can ask questions such as “Where is heat making the street unusable?” or “Which parks require a cleaning crew?” and see the answer in real time.
The model will guide robots and other physical systems to plan, navigate, and act in context, while learning from outcomes over time to improve performance, according to Analog. The company said it designed and operates the UAE’s world model as sovereign national infrastructure and core intellectual property.
The high-fidelity model updates continuously to support real-time decisions and improve service delivery, explained the partners. It also provides the operational substrate that enables robots and other physical systems to operate, maneuver, and coordinate safely. Ana, the Analog Neural Agent, provides decision support grounded in this world model.
Spot to rely on physical intelligence
Physical intelligence is AI that perceives with sensors and builds shared context in a world model, according to Analog and Boston Dynamics. It uses this information to coordinate actions with robots and infrastructure safely and in real time.
Spot delivers an agile four-legged presence, climbs stairs, traverses rough ground, and hosts modular sensor payloads, said Waltham, Mass.-based Boston Dynamics. It described the world model is “the physical intelligence fabric, which links heterogeneous digital and physical data sources into a shared context, offering a common substrate for robot maneuvering and multi-robot coordination.”
Ana listens to that fabric, blending live feeds with historical context to provide clear, actionable insights and safe tasking in real time, the company said. Initial deployments will begin with Abu Dhabi’s Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT), focused on park and public realm inspections, environmental quality, and accessibility. This is a first step toward wider service across the emirate’s most valuable assets, said the partners.
Analog plans to build an adaptive ecosystem in Abu Dhabi
Designed in Abu Dhabi and ready to ship worldwide, Boston Dynamics said the platform empowers people to scale district by district, safeguarding public data, and welcoming new sensors and robots as they arrive.
Analog is the home for this work, uniting robots, sensors, cameras, and data feeds into a living digital twin that can be reshaped in real time and queried through Ana.
“Abu Dhabi shows what is possible when the physical and digital operate as one,” said Alex Kipman, the founder and CEO of Analog. “Together with Boston Dynamics, we are weaving Ana’s intelligence into a continuously updating World Model that the UAE can rely on for inspection, maintenance, and service delivery.”
“Analog has pursued this mission since the company’s founding, and we will continue to lead as pioneers in physical intelligence and national world models, building an asset that grows in fidelity and value with every added robot or sensor,” he added.
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