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.

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 ...