New robot dogs can deliver your lunch right to your desk

What does an autonomous delivery bot do when it encounters a set of stairs in its path? Automotive corporation Continental teamed up with startup ANYbotics to combine the mobility of a four-legged, Boston Dynamics-style robot dog with an autonomous delivery vehicle. The result, which it showed off in a live demo at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, comes across either as a "Black Mirror" episode -- or a vision of the future of delivery. The concept is an unusual one: an autonomous vehicle pulls up to an address and spits out one or more (the press release isn't entirely clear) smaller quadripedal robot dogs, which ANYbotics calls "ANYmals," to complete the delivery. During a live demo, the robot dogs climbed stairs and even rang a doorbell.