General Dynamics make nimble robots that flip and dance. I can barely make my figurine stand o.o

Why?! It literally only needs some millions of dollars in hardware and a building of specialized devs. You seriously shouldn't have any problem making your bots as good as theirs.

It'd be cool to have ultra-minified balance algols, embedded in small controller chips, and the models use those just to repeat the mechanical "idle" motion that you'd see in games.

They could probably do something like that without the fancy electronics, but it'd still be cool to see it done as is.