I don't know the real answer in Boston Dynamics' case. However, in general, the answer is that Deep Learning is just beginning to be integrated into the pipelin

I don't know the real answer in Boston Dynamics' case. However, in general, the answer is that Deep Learning is just beginning to be integrated into the pipelines of major robotics/reinforcement learning pipelines. The same thing took time in complicated speech recognition pipelines. Deep learning is great for recognition/classification but robotics is much more.. Deep learning has to coexist with a number of other critical components. However, there is major and extremely exciting work being demonstrated in the literature art recent conferences on this front. Expect major developments this year