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Google's robot Christmas card is seriously disturbing

Matt WeinbergerDec 23, 2015, 05:56 IST

Boston Dynamics, a robotics company that's a part of Google X, itself a subsidiary of Alphabet, today posted a Christmas video that's best described as "unnerving."

In the video, Boston Dynamics' famous robot dogs, done up like Santa's reindeer, take someone who appears to be Mrs. Claus on a sleigh ride across a noticeably snow-free field.

Check it out:

As a Jew, I already feel like I don't really "get" Christmas or Santa Claus. The involvement of terrifying robot dogs, funded by the world's most popular search engine, just confuses the matter further.

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