Need a creepy robot dog? Boston Dynamics is now leasing Spot.

By now, we're all familiar with the dark wizardry being done over at Boston Dynamics. The robotics firm has become famous in recent years for viral videos of bipedal and quadrupedal robots doing things like opening doors and other activities that could, eventually, spell doom for the human race.

The small robotic dog known as Spot isn't commercially available yet, but Tuesday's news brings us closer to that reality. Boston Dynamics has started leasing Spot out to select clients. That means you could potentially see Spot doing its thing out in the wild, away from the Boston Dynamics labs that spawned all those videos. Read more...