When you're out on the road it's often a good idea to keep a story simple, for the sake of getting information to your eyeballs in the shortest possible amount of time.
So this won't be a long piece, because I really only have one thing to say: I saw a tiny robot dog do a handstand at CES 2025, and I recorded it for your amusement.
The Unitree Go1 robot dog can be purchased for $2,700 (plus an astonishing $1,000 in shipping, apparently), if you can find one in stock—which it currently isn't.
That might be because everyone who saw one do a handstand immediately broke out their credit cards, or possibly because Unitree hasn't made it available to consumers just yet.
Also, its pilot (operating it with what looked like a large smartphone with thumbstick controller add-ons) occasionally kicked it over.