Workers in India reportedly paid to film manual labor for robot training
Polymarket · x · 2026-08-13
According to Polymarket, workers in India are reportedly being paid to film themselves performing manual labor, with the footage used to train robots for human tasks. This highlights a new trend in data collection for robotics, raising ethical and labor concerns.
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