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AI data collection
Coverage of AI data collection in the Nexus archive.
- 'Folding clothes, coffee making, sandwich making': Indian workers training AI robots to take their jobs
Indian workers, including housewife Nagireddy Sriramyachandra, are training AI robots via motion capture to perform household tasks like slicing mangoes, folding clothes, and making sandwiches. Companies such as Objectways collect this 'egocentric data' to improve AI systems for real-world environments, with clients including Amazon SageMaker.