# Bad Influence story: Memories AI launches Memories Upload to sell first-person video as robot training data

Active · 3 articles · 3 sources · First reported 11-10 10:52. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/7dd6499f-3871-44cf-9b6b-168c2457cf54

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Latest update (11-10 11:20): Memories.ai launches Memories Upload for hand-level robot training video

Overview: Memories AI launches Memories Upload, a service that collects first-person video of everyday work and sells it to robotics labs as training data. Founder Shawn Shen says robots need internet-scale video of people completing tasks, and that the company spent over a year building the hardware, model and infrastructure to collect it. Shen says three of the top five frontier robotics labs already train models with the data.

Testing Catalog reports that the platform labels footage frame by frame for each hand, so labs can search by hand action and pick specific moments, and that Memories.ai adds new footage every month. Rohan Paul reports that the company pays people worldwide to record their hands at work, then cleans, labels and sells the footage. The reports give no pricing, contributor eligibility terms, or independent verification of the lab usage claims.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-10 11:20 · Rohan Paul · [Memories.ai launches Memories Upload for hand-level robot training video](https://badinfluence.news/items/socee7zgteniq2y2cxp4x619u)
2. 11-10 10:55 · Testing Catalog · [Memories.ai launches Memories Upload, a robotics training data network](https://badinfluence.news/items/zv1vnx01oxqiqy34el1r9l7jy)
3. 11-10 10:52 · Elvis Saravia · [Memories AI launches Memories Upload for robot training data](https://badinfluence.news/items/y9lyk3dz85ehjqtu38qicmtfy)
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