
When Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind announced their partnership at CES in January 2026, the press release read like a standard research collaboration.











Tesla calls it a robotaxi.
The last time anyone flew a fighter jet without a human in the cockpit was a test.
Michigan just became the most interesting state in the country for drones.
What if a robot could watch a video of someone doing a task, imagine how to do it itself, and then just do it? That is the idea behind Large Video Planner, a new robot foundation model from researchers at Harvard's Kempner Institute, MIT, and UC Berkeley.
There is a 360 camera drone that films every direction at once, that weighs less than a paperback novel, that can shoot 8K video from the sky, and that costs roughly half what the American alternative costs.
The U.S.
A warehouse robot traffic jam sounds like a minor problem.
It was a clear Plexiglas wall — the kind of obstacle that trips up almost every vision-based drone on the market.
When the Pentagon needs to know how a new aircraft handles a specific combat scenario, it does not send a pilot into the sky.
The night the Pentagon's AI counsel told the White House it had a problem, nobody was sure how to describe what had gone wrong. On Jan.
Two years ago, Figure AI was a robotics startup with a humanoid that could make coffee in a demo video.