This will either make your students smile, or give them nightmares:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6657_g_yMyo
Full article here:
https://www.therobotreport.com/digit-humanoid-agility-robotics-now-available/
This is a real robot, not a CGI animation. It was mostly teleoperated
for the making of the video, but the package pickup and drop actions
were fully autonomous.
The robot is available for purchase now for a price in the "low-mid six
figures", which I guess comes out to around $350,000. If this thing
were conscious we could ask it if it was afraid of losing its job to a
drone.
-- Dave