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The "Black Mirror"-esque "dogs" were creepy as hell — but we've got more to worry about.
New York City officials have unveiled three new high-tech policing devices including a robotic dog that critics called creepy when it first joined the police pack 2 1/2 years ago.
Musk said the machine, which waved at the audience and lifted its knees, is a work in progress — but will be tested by working at Tesla's car factories.
They found it swimming two miles beneath the ocean in one of the deepest ocean trenches on the planet.
Some find the idea of a theme park full of hyper-realistic, free-roaming robots a little unsettling for some reason.
The humanoid baller tossed it from the half court line too.
Dozens of high-traffic sites, including the New York Times and CNN, could not be reached due to the cloud service company's outage.
"I think when people see the new things that robots can do, it excites them,” Boston Dynamics founder and chairperson Marc Raibert told reporters.
"This is what they'll do when they win," one Twitter user quipped.