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Wanted: robot dog walker

People with leads walk four-legged robot dogs along a steep street while a real dog watches them from a bench with its head tilted; one of the walkers carries a switched-off robot in their arms.
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Dimensional, a San Francisco startup developing an open-source operating system for robots, was paying $20 an hour to walk its 15-kilo robot dogs — and carry them if they shut down — so it could compare those walkers with its AI agents, which, according to its founder, Stash Pomichter, “are still very bad at controlling hardware”.

Read more: Xataka — A startup pays $20 an hour to walk robot dogs (10-11-2026) ↗

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