Boston Dynamics veterans launch Dynamic Creatures to bring characters to life with robotics

- Boston Dynamics vets just filed the funniest hash manifest of the year: Marc Theermann and Farbod Farshidian launched Dynamic Creatures to turn Spot, Atlas, even Unitree rigs into walking, talking IP characters for theme parks, casinos, and cruise ships. Their SnowJay platform handles natural locomotion — mocap, NVIDIA tools, reinforcement learning — plus actual human-robot interaction, which beats the usual deaf-and-mute stack-eye robots. They've hired puppeteers to tune robot emotions (Pluto Uplink taught us to call it research), prototyped a purple poodle named Danielle and a mountain troll, and plan "assisted autonomy" pilots by early 2027, backed by Marc Raibert himself. Whoa, that's mega-illegal levels of charming — and the physical layer of AI finally learns to make people laugh.