Spirit AI employs ~1,000 people to manipulate objects, manufacturing robot training data by hand
VraserX · x · 2026-09-22
VraserX observes that Spirit AI has roughly 1,000 people repeatedly manipulating real objects—fridge doors, vegetables—to generate robot training data. His contrast: LLMs got the internet's data for free, but robotics has to pay humans to manufacture its own "internet" one action at a time, highlighting the costly data bottleneck for embodied AI.
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