Dimensional Offers $20-an-Hour Jobs to Walk 33-Pound Robot Dogs
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 27
Dimensional Offers $20-an-Hour Jobs to Walk 33-Pound Robot Dogs
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 27
Summary
$20 an hour was the pay in a now-deleted Dimensional job ad seeking people to walk robot dogs around San Francisco for four to six hours.
Four-to-six-hour walks were needed because the machines had to roam city sidewalks long enough to do their business, turning a novelty role into a lengthy field task.
33 pounds was the weight applicants had to handle if a robot overheated and stopped mid-walk, requiring the mechanical dog to be carried back to the start-up's office.
Dimensional, a San Francisco start-up based in Dogpatch, posted the opening in the Bay Area Jobs Facebook group, where it drew little surprise and at least one immediate expression of interest.