The new robot warehouse worker from Tutor Intelligence, a Watertown startup, won’t work for minimum wage.

But pay it $18 an hour, and it will uncomplainingly pick up boxes and plunk them onto wooden pallets — three shifts a day, with no breaks.

Tutor , founded by two MIT alums, is announcing this week that it has raised $34 million in venture capital funding.

Tutor is one of a handful of companies offering what some call “robots as a service.” Similar to cloud-based software that you pay for by the month, rather than buy outright, these devices are paid for based on usage, to limit upfront costs.

The company was founded in 2021. Josh Gruenstein, co-founder and CEO, said the concept was to deploy robots that could “do real jobs that are economically useful,” while also learning and gat

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