Robot startups are trying everything they can think of to get more data

Robot startups are racing to collect training data, from companies paying cleaners to wear cameras to firms recording VR-controlled humanoid robots.

The article says the largest openly available robot task dataset, ABC-130K, contains only 3,500 hours of demonstrations.

Skild CEO Deepak Pathak argues companies must gather high-quality data before robots can do enough useful work to generate it through deployment.