Eidon AI open-sources 9TB egocentric dataset and teleop glove before shutting down
Before shutting down, robotics startup Eidon AI open-sourced its entire data assets on Hugging Face under CC-BY-4.0 rather than letting the work disappear. The dataset, captured with wearables, contains 13,451 egocentric videos totaling 1,274 hours (9TB; tracker-pov is listed at 9.05TB) of real-world household chores from 27 homes, paired with 7-point IMU arm tracking and torso motion. The company also open-sourced the Eidon Glove teleoperation wearable.
Confirmed
- Eidon AI has ceased operations; assets were released under CC-BY-4.0 on Hugging Face before shutdown
- Scale: 13,451 recordings, 1,274 hours, 9TB, from 27 households
- Modalities: head-mounted egocentric video plus 7-point IMU arm tracking with torso motion
- Content: everyday chores such as cooking, dishwashing, folding laundry, cleaning
- Eidon Glove: a 16-DoF finger-tracking glove with 16 Hall-effect sensors, 100Hz BLE HID wireless transmission, ESP32-based, for humanoid teleoperation and embodied-AI data collection
- Positioned as a "human data → robot learning" training pipeline
Why it matters
- Egocentric video plus body-motion sensing is a scarce resource for imitation learning on household manipulation tasks; comparable real-world data has largely been held by big companies
- CC-BY-4.0 permits commercial use and redistribution, letting the community train and fine-tune models freely
- Open-sourcing all assets—including hardware—on shutdown was widely praised as a community-friendly move by posters including @vanstriendaniel, @CyberRobooo and @philfung
2026-09-21 ~ 2026-09-23 · 6 related posts
Primary sources
- Shuttered robotics company Eidon AI open-sources 9TB of egocentric video with IMU tracking — vanstriendaniel ·
- Eidon AI Open-Sources 1,274-Hour Egocentric Human Activity Dataset for Robot Learning — CyberRobooo ·
- Eidon open-sources 16-DOF teleop glove, trackers, sim environment and 1,200h of egocentric data — philfung ·
- [source] Shuttered robotics company Eidon AI open-sources 9TB of egocentric video with IMU tracking — vanstriendaniel · 2026-09-21
- Shutting-down Eidon AI Open-Sources 9TB of Egocentric Housework Video on Hugging Face — victormustar · 2026-09-21
- [source] Eidon AI Open-Sources 1,274-Hour Egocentric Human Activity Dataset for Robot Learning — CyberRobooo · 2026-09-22
- [source] Eidon open-sources 16-DOF teleop glove, trackers, sim environment and 1,200h of egocentric data — philfung · 2026-09-23
2 near-duplicate retellings: vanstriendaniel · CyberRobooo