SF startup pays $20 an hour to walk robot dogs for AI training data
Medical-Decision-125 · reddit · 2026-10-30
Per Fox Business, a San Francisco startup is offering $20 an hour for people to walk robot dogs, collecting real-world data for AI training. The job reflects the growing practice of embodied-AI companies using human operators to guide robots through environments to gather motion and interaction data for model training.
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