Poor Spot. Boston Dynamics' robots have never had it easy, what with everyone constantly abusing them. Sometimes Spot just gets to play, unkicked. But despite its sophisticated technology, it's not often that it gets to play nice with other dogs. Maybe because those other dogs bark at it, try to herd it, and in general make its robotic life miserable.

A real life dog (named Cosmo, and owned by Android co-founder Andy Rubin) sees Spot, then proceeds to refuse to let Spot run. Spot tries to evade the more agile companion to little to no success before just kind of laying down and giving up, which doesn't stop the verbal harangue from its flesh and blood counterpart.

Of course, each of the robot's movements were controlled remotely, rather than by any of Spot's artificial intelligence systems. Spot is just one in a line of bots from Alphabet-owned Boston Dynamics, which is concentrating its efforts on creating robots that better move without toppling over and are able to take a beating. That's exactly what will be needed in emergency efforts, so the abuse at least has a reasoning behind it. Here's a little more of Spot in action, seeing just how well he's able to rebound:

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