Boston Dog Thoroughly Freaked Out By Robotic Canine

One of my favorite websites to peruse is Weird Google Earth, in which users submit Google Earth photos of strange and unusual places and sights.

Who could ever forget the New Bedford car creep caught on camera? We're still not sure if it was a mask or something more spooky.

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One of the more recent postings on Weird Google Earth was captured in Boston, in the area of 67 Broad Street in the city's Financial District. The Google Maps camera caught a scene in which a real-life dog is bewildered by the appearance of a robot dog on the sidewalk.

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You can see the headless robot dog is just standing there, minding its own robot business...

...while the flesh-and-blood dog is thoroughly freaked.

While this might seem like a rather innocuous meeting on a city sidewalk that likely caused more of a chuckle than a concern, keep in mind that we also recently told you about the amazing advancements one Boston company is making in robotics.

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Could you imagine if you were walking down the sidewalk (with or without your dog) and you encountered a robot human doing normal human things? Would you think it was something fun and exciting, or would you be concerned that AI had finally become sentient and we were on the verge of Judgment Day like in Terminator 2? What do you think your reaction to that would be?

I'm guessing something close to this.