A common question about the impact of AI is how good it will be at interacting with the physical world. Even as we enter the era of AI agents—which take actions instead of just providing information—these actions are largely digital, such as writing code and manipulating software. We’ve previously explored how AI can bridge the digital-physical divide in a limited way with Project Vend, where we had Claude run a small shop in Anthropic’s office. In that experiment, AI’s interaction with the real world was mediated by human labor. In this robodog experiment, we took a natural next step and used