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Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog Is Now Armed—in the Name of Art – WIRED
A group of meme-spinning pranksters attached a paintball gun to the dynamic robot to make a point about the automated future.
In Spot’s Rampage, the robot roams an art gallery with a paintball gun.
Boston Dynamics has racked up hundreds of millions of YouTube views with viral clips of its futuristic, legged robots dancing together, doing parkour, and working in a warehouse.
A group of meme-spinning pranksters now wants to present a more dystopian view of the company’s robotic tech. They added a paintball gun to Spot, the companys doglike machine, and plan to let others control it inside a mocked-up art gallery via the…
