Nobody will expect the robot uprising when it happens, especially after Japanese-owned Boston Dynamics dazzles us with twerking, moonwalking robo-dogs of death designed to win us over with their dance routines.

In fact, if you see one dancing it might be best to just run...

And while we're all distracted by dancing robo-dogs, Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot, Atlas, will undoubtedly use its new parkour skills to flank crowds of mesmerized onlookers before hidden chain guns emerge from its arms to cull the herd.

Even Jeff Bezos may need to think twice before deploying his own private army of robo-reapers... after all, who knows what they're going to do once they become sentient?

Jeff Bezos confidently struts with robot dog at his side

The need for a portable EMP has never been greater.

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The robot uprising is right on schedule as a new report by Inverse suggests that Boston Dynamics’ terrifying robot dogs will launch into series production by the second half of 2019, producing more than 1,000 of its compact SpotMini models annually.

Boston Dynamics has upgraded their two "nightmare inducing" robots since last our last report - adding several new tricks to their arsenal that should help considerably in the robot uprising.

At a technology conference in Hannover, Germany, Marc Raibert, the founder of Boston Dynamics, outlined how his company may soon begin to turn its decades-long robotics research into an actual business. Boston Dynamics was sold to SoftBank by Alphabet last year following concerns around its ability to generate revenue. Since the acquisition, it seems that the company has ramped up testing on its increasingly dexterous and nimble robots. Earlier this year, Raibert said the company planned to start selling its SpotMini robot dogs in 2019, and onstage this week, he said the company plans to produce about 100 of the robots by the end of this year. The goal is to begin mass production at the rate of about 1,000 robots per year in the middle of 2019.

Boston Dynamics, the SoftBank-owned robotics firm (that was once Alphabet’s headache), will begin to commercialize its research next year. Marc Raibert, the company’s founder, announced onstage at a TechCrunch robotics conference May 11 that Boston Dynamics will begin selling its dog-shaped robot, SpotMini, in 2019. It’ll build about 100 robots over the next year, and is currently in the process of contracting manufacturers.

Atlas is the latest in a line of advanced humanoid robots we are developing. Atlas' control system coordinates motions of the arms, torso and legs to achieve whole-body mobile manipulation, greatly expanding its reach and workspace.

Defense Onereported last Thursday, the Army had just concluded a live-fire exercise using a remote-controlled ground combat vehicle complete with a fully automated machine gun. The demonstration marked the first time that the Army has used a ground robot providing fire in tandem with human troops in a military exercise and, as Defense One noted, “it won’t be the last.”

One of the best things about all the recent attention on the Google memo, is that it has placed this corporate behemoth and its very clear ideological leanings squarely in the public eye. This gives us the space to shine light on some other aspects of Google, which I believe most people would find quite concerning if made aware of.

According to a piece of authoritative research published by the United Nations, terrorists are working to build armies of artificially intelligent killer robots capable of slaughtering large numbers of innocent civilians.

SpotMini is a new smaller version of the Spot robot that weighs 55 lbs dripping wet (65 lbs if you include its arm.) SpotMini is all-electric (no hydraulics) and runs for about 90 minutes on a charge, depending on what it is doing. SpotMini is one of the quietest robots we have ever built. It has a variety of sensors, including depth cameras, a solid state gyro (IMU) and proprioception sensors in the limbs. These sensors help with navigation and mobile manipulation. SpotMini performs some tasks autonomously, but often uses a human for high-level guidance

Google recently put up its Boston Dynamics robotics unit up for sale, but that doesn’t mean that the company is getting out of the automaton business. A new bipedal robot from Google’s Schaft robotics was shown off on Friday at the New Economic Summit conference in Tokyo, Japan on Friday.

The vast majority of robotics research is funded by the military industrial complex. There is a lot of dancing around that fact, but the reality is that it’s governments’ desire for more, cheaper and deadlier killing machines that’s at the root of this. Sure, the corporate drive to shrink payrolls is a large factor, but I see that as a by-product of the military work.

It seems that Google-owned Boston Dynamics may now be able to put a face to the future automated fleecing of America. This week the company fed the Terminator-inspired nightmares of people all over the world by releasing a video of Atlas, its new humanoid robot, which is seen completing menial factory tasks and traversing landscapes with ease.