Boston Dynamics Robot Parody
For those who aren’t familiar with Boston Dynamics, it’s basically an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group. They’re most well known for their development of BigDog, a quadruped robot designed for the U.S. military with funding from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). What if they eventually developed an AI-powered, self-aware robot that was able to fight back? Bosstownn Dynamics attempts to show us with their parody video. Read more to watch.



“Many fear the robocalypse. Could this video be a funny glance into a future where it happens? It’s still too early for that now as, for the time being, these robots have limited capacity for independent thought but it is something to consider,” said Interesting Engineering.

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