Wanted: Robot-Dog Walkers. $20/Hour. (Gift Article)

A friend in SF was out walking his dog and saw someone else walking a robot dog. He sent me the video. The other guy was a paid robot dog walker. I had SO many questions so I investigated: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/t...

"Not everyone was amused by the robots roaming Dogpatch this month. Dimensional wants to give A.I. agents real-world bodies at the same time that concern is spreading that more sophisticated A.I. might try to kill us." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/t...

“But before we can have robodog save us the trouble and indignity of carrying the groceries, Dimensional needs to improve the robots’ ability to autonomously navigate an urban environment. Thus the need for robot dog walkers”

Who says AI will take all the good jobs? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/t...

Startup working on operating systems for robots that will allow embedding A.I. agents to control them. Here's a gift link to the story: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/t...

Please stop calling them dogs. They are not that, even if the manufacturers would like us to feel about them like we do about puppies. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/t...

A San Francisco start-up hired people to walk robot dogs. #robots #AI #dogs

Payable in Crypto ... or Krypto? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/t...

Wanted: Robot-Dog Walkers. $20/Hour. (Gift Article) f the nyt

Robot startup Dimensional pays $20 an hour for humans to walk $2,000 Unitree robot dogs around San Francisco, collecting AI training data

When I tell you that my hometown is Down Bad *thanks* to all the Greedy, Immoral #AI Ghouls now re-colonizing #SF: Would you *walk* a RobotDog for $20 per hour? 🤦🏽‍♀️ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/t...

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I mean, really? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/t...

That'll do, pup. That'll do. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/t...

😑😑😑 “People, Mr. Pomichter fervently believes, should be able to command robots to pick up heavy boxes and lug things around. “It’s honestly barbaric that humans are still doing these physical tasks,” he said in an interview.”

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Wanted: Robot-Dog Walkers. $20/Hour Discussion

"Mr. Pomichter said he had programmed a robot dog to patrol Dimensional’s warehouselike office at night. He said he had given it the prompt “You are the world’s best security dog” and told it to follow anyone who entered the building after midnight."

(GIFT ARTICLE) Wanted: Robot-Dog Walkers. $20/Hour. No pooper scooper required. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/t...

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“What we determined from our dog-walking experiment was that agents are still very bad at controlling hardware...And humans are still needed in the loop.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/t...