Memories.ai Launches Memories Upload: Paying Workers for Egocentric Video to Train Robot Labs' Models
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-11-11
Memories.ai launched Memories Upload, a marketplace that pays people worldwide to record first-person footage of their hands at work, then cleans, labels and sells it to robotics labs training manipulation models.
- Proprietary models (Memories-H0 for hand pose, EgoAction for action segments, published at ICLR/NeurIPS/EMNLP) timestamp every clip so the archive can be queried by hand action;
- In-house head-mounted stereo + wrist rigs record at real work sites: 1K+ tasks across 20+ industries, plus custom annotation of teleop/UMI/sim video;
- Per the launch thread, 3 of the top 5 frontier robotics labs already train on the data;
- Positioning: a curated "Video Datalake" for physical AI, world models, VLAs and humanoids, with wrist EMG force data coming soon.
The core insight: searching video by what hands are doing — from a camera on a worker's head to a JSON file in a training run — is one of the most useful ideas in robotics data right now.
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