Indian Factory Workers Wearing Head-Mounted Cameras to Generate Robot Training Data — 561↑ on r/singularity, Confirmed by MIT Tech Review and CNN

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Palo Alto company Micro1 has hired thousands of contract workers in India to mount iPhones on their heads and record themselves doing chores — cooking, cleaning, laundry — submitting 10+ hours weekly as 'egocentric data' for training humanoid robots. Robotics companies including Tesla, Figure AI, and Agility Robotics are spending over $100M annually on this real-world movement data. The story surfaced simultaneously on r/singularity (561↑, 93cmts) and was corroborated by MIT Technology Review and CNN reporting from April 1-4.