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"... Silicon Valley-based startup Human Archive is tapping into this trend, partnering with these companies [on-demand household staffing platforms] to have workers wear special caps with cameras to collect egocentric (first-person point of view) video data of everyday tasks that could be used to train robots.
Without naming specific partners, the startup said it is working with companies in the home services, hotel, and restaurant sectors to collect egocentric data, and it says it has more than 1,000 active headsets deployed across multiple locations. ...
Across the country [US, India?], other startups are collecting egocentric data from different work environments, including factory floors. To differentiate itself, Human Archive is using and developing additional devices, such as tactile gloves, a full-body motion capture suit, and wrist cameras to capture data, including motion and tactile force, synchronously aligned with RGB-D (color imagery paired in real time with depth information), to sell to AI labs. The startup believes that video data alone is not sufficient but that pairing it with other sensor data makes it much more valuable. ..."
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