Chinese factories reportedly pay workers extra to wear robotics data-collection gear daily
jwt0625 · x · 2026-10-24
The author asks how much extra Chinese factories pay workers per day to wear robotics data-collection gear — a revealing glimpse into how embodied AI training data is actually sourced: via large-scale human-worn capture rather than pure simulation or teleop labs, raising questions about the real labor economics behind robot learning.
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