I've yet to walk the entire floor at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year (that's the goal for this afternoon), but my sense is the majority of the robots present fit into one of two categories: robot vacuums or greeter robots. The two Xiaomi robots -- CyberOne and CyberDog -- may well have been the most prominent of the show, and neither were especially inspiring. It was fun finally seeing the Cyber One in person after writing about it seven months ago. The humanoid robot's stilted locomotion screamed "research prototype" in the first demo, and I'm plenty wary about phone makers getting "serious" about robotics. There was no demo in the booth this year, rendering it more of an expensive mechanical mannequin. CyberDog was moving, at least.

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Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced the launch of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute. The research-first organization's goal is to make fundamental advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and intelligent machines. As an initial investment, Hyundai and Boston Dynamics make an initial investment of over $400 million in the new Institute, which will be led by Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics. With a pool of elite talent in AI, robotics, machine learning, software, and engineering, the Boston Dynamics AI Institute wants to develop future generations of intelligent machines. Combining the best features of university research labs and corporate development labs, the Institute will be working in four core technical areas: cognitive AI, athletic AI, and organic hardware design, as well as ethics and policy.