Meet Sparkles! Boston Dynamics' robot dog, Spot, wears a blue sparkly pooch costume as it performs an impressive dance routine - but terrified viewers claim the outfit 'just adds fuel for nightmares'

At first glimpse astatine this video, you'd beryllium forgiven for mistaking it arsenic a clip from nan latest children's cartoon. 

But nan footage is very overmuch real, and features a real-life robot. 

Boston Dynamics' robot dog, Spot, tin beryllium seen wearing a blue, sparkly canine costume arsenic it performs an awesome creation routine. 

'Spot is gathering different unusual canine and making friends done nan powerfulness of dance. Meet Sparkles!' Boston Dynamics said. 

The video has received a mixed reception connected societal media, pinch 1 sceptic commenting that, alternatively than being cute, nan costume 'adds substance for nightmares.'

Boston Dynamics posted nan video to its YouTube channel successful ceremony of International Dance Day earlier this week. 

It features 2 of nan tech giant's robot dogs, Spots, gathering pinch 1 another, earlier sharing a buss and breaking retired into dance. 

While nan achromatic and yellowish robot connected nan correct is instantly recognisable arsenic Spot, nan bot connected nan near is decked retired successful a blue, sparkly canine costume.

'Sparkles is simply a civilization costume designed conscionable for Spot to research nan intersections of robotics, art, and entertainment,' Boston Dynamics explained successful nan caption. 

Several fans person flocked to nan comments to definitive their delight astatine nan caller video. 

'Boston Dynamics is conscionable flexing astatine this constituent and I'm each present for it!' 1 personification wrote. 

Another added: 'Seriously though, Spot's mobility is REALLY impressive! The Sparkles overgarment looks for illustration a bluish Sprocket (Fraggle Rock).'

And 1 posted: 'Imagine this being implemented astatine taxable parks for illustration Disney, seeing Pluto locomotion connected each fours alternatively of 2 each connected his ain and looking for illustration a existent dog. 

'It'd beryllium a spot freaky yeah, but besides truthful darn cool and immersive!'

However, it seems that others were little enamoured. 

'Everybody wants to pet nan canine until its cervix extends 4 feet,' 1 personification joked. 

Another added: 'As if it weren't frightening capable to ideate a post-apocalyptic world wherever a robot dog, equipped pinch a chainsaw, hunts you down arsenic you huddle for warmth nether nan floorboards of your shack. 

'Now alternatively of acold integrative and steel, you're greeted pinch nan look of sparkles brandishing nan aforesaid chainsaw. My god.'

And 1 wrote: 'Uncanny valley... But dogs!'

The caller video comes soon aft Boston Dynamics debuted its caller Atlas 2.0 robot, aft retiring its legendary predecessor, Atlas. 

This caller type boasts joints that fto nan instrumentality crook and move successful ways that nan quality assemblage can't - dissimilar nan original, rigid Atlas that was famous for dancing and doing parkour.

The institution besides plans to waste nan latest humanoid robot, but nan value has yet to beryllium disclosed, and it is group to statesman its first occupation astatine Hyundai's factories adjacent year.