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Dimensional Is In Search Of Robot-Dog Walkers
Courtesy of Unitree
A San Francisco startup called Dimensional posted a job listing for a robot dog walker. Yes, really.
The Big Picture: Robots — whether humanoid, quadruped, or even adorable rolling food-delivery bots — need a lot of data to navigate the real world and complete assigned tasks. To gather that data, flesh-and-blood humans need to put these robots through trial and error out in the wild. For Dimensional, the most cost-effective way to do that is to hire people to take them on a stroll.
Behind The Job: If you’ve always wanted to hit the town with a dog that doesn’t bark or poop, Dimensional has the gig for you.
The company briefly posted the listing in the Facebook group “Bay Area Jobs,” offering $20 per hour (about the same as a typical dog walker), according to NYT. The listing was eventually taken down, presumably after the role was filled.
Shifts were four to six hours at $20 per hour, with workers walking the dog by guiding it with a remote control (so comfortable shoes and something for hand cramps are a must).
The job required no experience beyond being able to lift the 33-pound, $2,000 robot in case it overheated and crashed out (just like a regular dog).
The walks would collect “ground truth” data through the robodog’s cameras and sensors, which constantly record.
Last Lap: Not only were people interested in the role, but videos also poured in of people out and about with Dimensional’s robot dogs — which are actually made by Chinese startup Unitree.
NYT reports that Dimensional is developing an open-source OS for robots that would allow an AI agent to control them autonomously. While Dimensional is starting with robot dogs, it wants to apply the same principles to humanoids. People could give them prompts like “take out the trash” or “give me a shoulder massage,” and voilà, the robots could do it.
The Future: Robot dogs are already being used to patrol an apartment complex in Atlanta and Dimensional’s HQ, so maybe taking MechaFido out for a stroll is helping create a new breed of security forces and emergency responders. That seems like the most natural use case for these bots.
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Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
Edited by Nick Comney. Polled and Copy-edited by Kait Cunniff.
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