This Robot Dog Almost ESCAPED The Leash

A robot dog on a leash. A crowd. One thin chain between “demo” and “oh no.”

Filmed at Ars Electronica, Takayuki Todo’s Dynamics of a Dog on a Leash starts as a performance and instantly spirals into something… feral. The robot jerks, lunges, snarls — people flinch, laugh, step back. And then Todo drops the real twist: the chain might not hold…

We captured everything — the aggression, the tension, the bizarre moment when people start feeling empathy for a machine that feels nothing at all. And yes, the “sleeping” dog does wake up.