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Boston Dynamics and its robots want to wish you a bizarre holidays

See Spot run. See Spot pull Santa.

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They can run, they can jump, and now they can unitedly pull Santa’s sleigh. Here is Spot — or, actually, multiple Spots — the newest version of the highly advanced quadruped robot, BigDog, created by Boston Dynamics.

The company, acquired by Google in 2013, creates human simulation software and robotics. Aside from several generations of BigDog, Boston Dynamics has also created a two-legged humanoid Atlas, which, in 2014, channeled The Karate Kidcrane stance. Back in January, Atlas went cordless, and then later it took a hike through the woods.

Robots these days, amirite?

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