This just looks freaky.  My reaction is to imbue this mechanical creation with the attributes that a living animal has.  The way it moves and walks is enough like a living creature that I get a very odd feeling about it.

My primitive mamallian brain or maybe my lizard brain keeps tellimg me this is a living creature.  My Homo Sapien Brain keeps saying "no it ain't", but it can't convince my older brains.  They believe what they see, not what I tell them.

So obviously this is just experimental, but I've never seen anything like the swift kick to the side of a robot delivered by one of the researchers. That is an impressive bit of balancing going on there.

I for one welcome our new donkey-looking-noisy-weird robot overlords!

Created by Boston Dynamics. [linky]