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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">About Menlo</span><br>Menlo Research is an Applied R&amp;D lab building Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot platform, and the full software stack that powers it. Our mission is to make humanoid labor economically viable -- turning software into physical labor at scale. We build across the full stack: hardware architecture, locomotion, autonomy, simulation, and infrastructure. We move fast, ship to real robots, and open-source everything we can. If you want your work to matter beyond a paper or a demo, this is the place.<br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">The Role</span><br><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The hard problem in robotics is not building a compelling prototype. 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