Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
2026
Hospitality, Entertainment, Theme Parks, Hotels and Resorts, Casinos, Museums, Cultural Institutions, Cruise Ships, Live Events, Retail, Brand Experiences
Dynamic Creatures publicly emerged from stealth on September 8, 2026. It was founded by Marc Theermann and Farbod Farshidian as a spinout of Boston Dynamics’ hospitality and entertainment business.
Dynamic Creatures is a robotics company developing mobile character robots designed for direct interaction with people. Instead of building robots primarily for functional tasks such as delivery, cleaning, or transportation, the company focuses on robots that can move through guest environments, perceive what is happening around them, and respond to individual people in real time.
Its approach combines robotics, artificial intelligence, character design, adaptive behavior, and interactive experiences. The company develops systems using existing robotic platforms, including Boston Dynamics systems, while also creating fully custom robots designed around specific brands, environments, or stories.
Dynamic Creatures designs and builds robotic characters for entertainment and hospitality environments where interaction with people is central to the experience. Its robots are intended to move through commercial spaces and respond to guests rather than perform the same predetermined sequence for an entire crowd.
The company works with existing robotic platforms as well as custom-built hardware. Its platform-based characters can be adapted with character design, costuming, behavioral programming, and interactive capabilities, while custom projects can be developed around a particular brand, environment, or story. The company has announced engagements with a major theme park and retailer, although the specific organizations have not been publicly identified.
Dynamic Creatures combines mobile robotics with artificial intelligence and systems for real-time interaction. At the center of its technology is SnowJay, an integrated AI and robotics platform that the company describes as the operating system for its interactive characters.
SnowJay brings together real-time perception, learning-based control, behavioral programming, robotics, character design, and costuming. These capabilities allow a character to perceive its surroundings, adapt its behavior to people and activity nearby, and coordinate movement and interaction within commercial environments.
The technology is particularly focused on the relationship between movement, perception, and behavior. Rather than treating the robot simply as a machine that performs a task, Dynamic Creatures uses the underlying robotics system to support characters that can respond to changing encounters. The company also uses existing robotic platforms, including Boston Dynamics systems, while developing fully custom robotic hardware when a project requires it.
Dynamic Creatures is relevant to the emerging robotics landscape because it applies advanced mobile robotics to an area where human interaction is the primary purpose rather than task automation.
Traditional animatronics generally operate from fixed locations and follow predetermined performances, while many service robots are designed around specific functional tasks. Dynamic Creatures is working between those categories, developing mobile characters intended to operate in variable environments and respond to individual guests.
This creates a distinct application for robotics involving entertainment, hospitality, immersive experiences, and brand interaction. Its work also illustrates how physical AI and embodied robotics can extend beyond factories and warehouses into environments where movement, perception, behavior, and human interaction need to operate together.
SnowJay is Dynamic Creatures’ integrated AI and robotics platform and serves as the operating system for its interactive robotic characters. It combines real-time perception, learning-based control, behavioral programming, robotics, character design, and costuming.
The platform is designed to coordinate the capabilities required for characters to move through commercial environments, perceive people and activity, and adapt their behavior to individual interactions.
Dynamic Creatures develops mobile robotic characters that can be built on existing robotics platforms or created as fully custom systems. Platform-based characters can be deployed more quickly than completely custom robots, while custom systems can be designed around a specific brand, environment, intellectual property, or story.
One publicly referenced example is Danielle, a character robot built on Boston Dynamics’ Spot platform.
Dynamic Creatures is initially focused on applications where robots can interact directly with visitors and guests. These include theme parks, location-based entertainment, hotels and resorts, casinos, museums, cultural institutions, cruise ships, and live venues.
Potential applications include roaming entertainment characters, brand ambassadors, guest interaction, concierge guidance, and personalized visitor experiences. The company has also identified luxury retail and automotive brand experience centers as potential future markets.
Its announced work with a major theme park and retailer demonstrates the company’s initial focus on commercial environments where interactive robotic characters can become part of a broader guest or brand experience.
SnowJay is Dynamic Creatures’ integrated AI and robotics platform. It serves as the operating system for the company’s interactive characters and combines perception, learning-based control, behavioral programming, robotics, character design, and costuming.
Dynamic Creatures is a separate company that emerged from Boston Dynamics’ hospitality and entertainment business. Boston Dynamics identifies Dynamic Creatures as its official entertainment and hospitality partner.
Danielle is a robotic character developed by Dynamic Creatures using Boston Dynamics’ Spot platform. The robot combines the underlying mobile robotic system with character design intended for more approachable human interaction.
Yes. In addition to creating character-based experiences on existing robotic platforms, Dynamic Creatures develops fully original robots around the requirements of a particular brand, environment, or story.
The company is targeting environments including theme parks, hotels, resorts, casinos, museums, cultural institutions, cruise ships, and live venues. It has also identified retail and automotive brand experience centers as potential applications.
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