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Workers Record Home Tasks To Train Robots
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Los Angeles residents are recording daily chores with head- and hand-mounted cameras to create training data for AI and robots, the Los Angeles Times reports on March 13, 2026. A San Francisco firm, Instawork, is distributing headbands with phone mounts to hundreds of gig workers who capture first-person video of tasks like making coffee and washing dishes. The footage will be used to teach robots human movements.
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