You may have seen video of the trotting, headless, animal-like robot created by Boston Dynamics, and if you haven't, prepare for nightmares.
While taking the robot out for a spin the other day, the team conducted a fun, though inadvertent, experiment when their robot-dog-animal came face-to-face with a real canine.
The perturbed and confused real pup ran around their ambling robot, chasing and barking at the creature obviously unhappy with his new mechanical friend.