Workers Film Themselves Training Robots

⊲ eWeek ⊳ Some Indian factories are requiring assembly line workers to wear forehead cameras and smart glasses, capturing footage used to train humanoid robots. India has become a major source for this data, with firms such as EgoLab, Humyn AI and Scale AI collecting recordings at a fraction of western costs. Workers typically receive no direct payment, and footage is also used to monitor productivity and idle time. Consent is arranged through factory management rather than individual employees, raising privacy and labour rights concerns, according to reporting by The Guardian.
As humanoid robots edge closer to factory dexterity, today’s uncompensated recordings may fund the very automation that replaces these workers.
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