#training-data · How Robots Are Reshaping Work

Figure moved the training-data step off the payroll and onto a bounty sheet. Index took four months to collect 16 million uploads from 44,000 weekly contributors, has paid out $15M, and has $1B committed for the next 12 months.

China is deploying humanoids faster than the US not to replace workers yet, but to harvest the training data that will let them — and it has built 64 facilities to record humans on camera.

X Square Robot open-sourced XRZero-G0 on June 11: a VR headset plus handheld grippers that turn human demonstrations into robot training data, cutting real-robot data needs up to 20x.