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Dimensional Pays Humans to Carry Its Robots

Dimensional pays $20 an hour to walk its robot dogs and carry them back when they fail, while its founder calls such physical work barbaric.

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A walker steers a robot dog along a San Francisco sidewalk
Image: The New York Times

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