Dimensional Pays $20 an Hour to Walk Robot Dogs for AI Data
Dimensional recruited people in San Francisco to guide RoboFido, a Unitree robot dog, for four to six hours per shift at $20 an hour, according to reports citing The New York Times. Workers controlled the robot while its cameras and sensors recorded its surroundings and movement as ground-truth data for improving autonomous navigation. Founder Stash Pomichter said Dimensional was also developing an open-source robot operating system for integrating AI agents with more than 100 robot dogs and 50 humanoid robots the company had purchased.
The project illustrates a human-in-the-loop method for collecting real-world navigation data for embodied AI. Pomichter also said Dimensional’s tests found that AI agents still performed poorly at controlling the hardware and required human assistance.
10月28日，据《纽约时报》报道，本月早些时候，美国旧金山一家创业公司发布了一则奇怪的招聘启事。它在招聘人员遛机器狗，无需经验，时薪为20美元(约合133元人民币)。
美公司招募遛机器狗人员
遛机器狗的时薪与遛真狗差不多，但机器狗需要花更多时间在旧金山人行道上四处溜达，完成它的“大小便”等日常事务。招聘启事称，每次遛狗需要花四到六个小时。
这则招聘启事后来已被删除。它由一家名为Dimensional的创业公司发布在Facebook的“湾区招聘”群组中。有趣的是，这家公司恰好位于旧金山一个名叫Dogpatch的社区。
该招聘启事只引来了寥寥几条评论，没有一条评论觉得这件事有什么奇怪。一位母亲写道：“我儿子对此感兴趣，可以马上开始工作。”但她后来表示，她儿子最终并没有真的去做这份工作。