[sliverstorm]

For quadrotors at least. Most of the projects I've seen coming out of Boston Dynamics are, as best I can tell, entirely self-contained.

(This is part of why BD impresses me so much)

[ynniv]

Yes, but none of them are (permanently) aerial and some of them use internal combustion for power. Computation requires weight and energy, and computer vision requires lots of computation.

[nightski]

I may not be fully up to date but I have never seen a BD video with cooperating robots.

[smackfu]

Aren't most of their videos using a tether though? Which is pretty much the same "only works in the lab" issue.