Drone maker lets robot fly drone to prove it's easy to use and scare the heck out of us

Picture this: a pint-sized humanoid robot wearing goggles. Okay, that's not particularly weird or scary, but what if those goggles have a pair of antennas that let the robot communicate with a drone? Oh, and did I mention that the robot is holding a joystick and is flying the drone? You really can't make this stuff up.

The race to bring humanoid robots into our lives is heating up, and their sudden ubiquity in public discourse and culture is leading to some strange mashups like journalists and robots, robots and grandparents, and, now, robots and drones.

On the one hand, we have the exciting new 360-degree drone, the Antigravity A1 from Insta360 offshoot Antigravity. On the other hand, you have Unitree's G1 humanoid robot. The roughly $21,000, four-foot-tall, 77-pound robot has been popping up all over social media, most memorably in this video ...