---
title: "Boston Dynamics Big Dog Robots Pull Santa’s Sleigh, Ruin Christmas"
description: "I’d like to opt out now."
date: "2015-12-23"
modified: "2015-12-23"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/design/1425/boston-dynamics-big-dog-robots-pull-santas-sleigh-ruin-christmas"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Boston Dynamics"
  - "robots"
---

# Boston Dynamics Big Dog Robots Pull Santa’s Sleigh, Ruin Christmas

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/archive-images/bostonreindeer16x9.jpg>)
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Boston Dynamics makes robots. It makes big robots and little robots and [jarring bipedal robots](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrjAa1SgjQ>) that can run (read: “chase humans”) through the woods. The engineering and design firm was spun-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992, and [acquired by Google](<https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/14/5209622/google-has-bought-robotics-company-boston-dynamics>) two years ago. Now, [Boston Dynamics](<https://www.bostondynamics.com/>) has ruined Christmas.

What you see here are the company’s gangly, metallic dogs dressed up as reindeer. They are pulling a sled through a conspicuously snowless field, encouraged by a woman, who is presumably some kind of hostage and being forced to do this, wearing a Santa Claus outfit. The idyllic caroling audio track only makes it all worse.

I’d like to opt out now. The blue pill, please. Any pill. *All the pills*. Just not convulsing, vaguely zoomorphic robots pulling a sled through the barren landscape to celebrate Jesus Christ’s birthday.

https://youtube.com/embed/RDZu04v7_hc

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