Watch Google’s robot dog play with a real dog

Groovy and testosterone-promoting, from a technical level, I guess.

But the bigger point, as someone pointed out in the comments below the original, is:

This dog is NOT playing with the dog robot. He is upset by it and is barking to make it back down. We better be kind to all our dogs and keep them around because they will probably be the only ones to detect those terminators.

The fact that the Google engineers don't instinctively realize this shows how (very) far they have to go toward understanding the robot-mammal divide.

Which reminds me, I really like this comment, also:

The future looks really creepy. That thing has as much regard for the dog as it does us.