Kyle Vogt’s Bot Company is being sued for turning an Airbnb into a robot lab
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Kyle Vogt’s Bot Company allegedly used an Airbnb as a secret robot lab. The host found a six-foot prototype inside and is suing for $12,000 in damages.
A San Francisco Airbnb host is suing The Bot Company, the $2 billion robotics startup founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt, for allegedly using his home as a secret robot testing lab. Sean Donovan claims workers booked his Portola neighbourhood property under false pretences in April, posing as remote workers from Thailand. He is seeking $12,383 in damages.
What Donovan found was not a group of digital nomads. Using his outdoor Ring camera, he counted more than 30 people entering and leaving the house over 11 nights. He overheard some of them discussing their “shifts,” he told SFGate.
When Donovan stopped by to take out the trash, he found bundles of wires leading inside. He followed them and discovered a...
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