OpenMind has demonstrated agentic USDC payments via its robotic dog, Bits on Tuesday. The aim was to give a proof of concept for Circle’s new agentic solution to facilitate machine-to-machine payments. Circle and OpenMind joined hands for this demonstration.
As part of the demonstration, Bits independently recharged itself using the USDC stablecoin — showing that machine-to-machine agentic payments were possible and that robotics could also be a key element of this ecosystem.
Speaking on the development, OpenMind founder and CEO Jan Liphardt said OpenMind-built AI-powered cognition mechanism was deployed on Bits, the robotic dog, that enabled it to learn, remember, and decide on its own. But the robot, that would be performing errands for humans, would eventually need charging on the go. Here is where the need and utility of agentic AI on-chain payment comes into play, he said.
Bhushit Agarwal, a software engineer at Circle said that the next generation of finance is being designed for machines as consumers.
“We’re seeing these robots struggle with current commerce infrastructure. Current infrastructure is designed to be catered for humans and requires a lot of manual intervention. We’re working with circle, because as our robots become more and more autonomous, they can do more and more things.” Agarwal noted.
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Jeremy Allaire, the co-founder and CEO of Circle chimed with with OpenMind to acknowledge the development.
Circle, in recent months, has accelerated its involvement with the AI sector. Last week, for instance, it organized and concluded an hackathon for AI agents on Moltbook.