Apptronik has risen in value from $15 million to $5 billion and now has Google DeepMind as a partner. There's a very big idea backing the robotics startup.

Called Automations, the new system gives users a way to automatically launch agents within their coding environment, triggered by a new addition to the codebase, a Slack message, or a simple timer.

The tiny bots follow patterns of light and "artificial space-time," navigating like craft following the curved space around a black hole.