[ralfd]

https://www.bostondynamics.com/spot

They promise "repeatable autonomous missions to gather consistent data", so my guess is programming a route and mapping terrain is reasonably easy. There is also remote control and camera access, if that could be triggered to automatically notify you (or a dog walking central command service supervising), for example when your dog is barking/complaining or resists to being dragged, it could go a long way to solve dog walking (for smaller dogs).

[iancmceachern]

But how? How do we program it to know when to call you? Its a non-trivial problem.