SEE ALSO: This robot flies like a real bat and is not at all creepy Cassie was built using a 16-month, $1-million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Like, somewhere in the back of your mind, you can feel the peering eyes of something ... mounted eyeballs producing a creepy vibe radiating out from the feline, robot poster.

An curved arrow pointing right. This creepy robot is one of a kind because it was created by a Norwegian engineer in his garage. The robot is called the MX-Phoenix hexapod, it is powered by 18 ...

And by that, we mean Google just sold off Boston Dynamics — the company that designs and engineers all those creepy ... small dog robot thing — is not much better. Skip to 1:28 to watch ...