https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3gjxw/boston-dynamics-spot-mschf-robot-dog

Art and marketing collective MSCHF—makers of the void-screaming website and "The Office Slack"—announced on Monday that their next stunt would involve allowing people around the world to log onto their website on Wednesday at 1 p.m. and take control of a Boston Dynamics Spot robot which has been mounted with a paintball gun. It’s called “Spot’s Rampage,” and it's a simple fair joke: Spot, which has been the subject of countless viral videos where it appears cute and harmless, reveals its potential as a killing machine. 

Boston Dynamics, perhaps only hearing the title of the stunt and fearing the worst, helped the campaign along with a statement released on Friday distancing itself from whatever “Spot’s Rampage” might be. Before anyone knew what it was, the company posted a statement to Twitter, mentioning cryptically that an “art group” was planning “a spectacle to draw attention to a provocative use of our robot, Spot.”