"Enter Tesla's secret lab at its engineering headquarters in Palo Alto, California, where according to a new scoop from Business Insider, its goal is to record practically every mundane human movement imaginable, performed hundreds of times each day by a tireless crew of dozens of workers. The AI industry is as much powered by armies of human grunts who work behind the scenes to make the tech appear seamless as it is by the actual gigawatts of energy consumed by its enormous data centers."
"Now, with Optimus's lab, we have "data collectors," who themselves constitute the dataset. Their motions are captured by five cameras mounted on a helmet they wear, along with a cumbersome backpack that weighs up to 40 pounds. They do everything from lifting a cup to wiping a table tovacuuming to organizing vehicle with parts on a conveyor belt - to more questionable requests, per BI, like doing the "Chicken Dance" and twerking."
A specialized lab captures thousands of mundane human movements to train humanoid robots, using workers who perform the same actions hundreds of times daily. Data collectors wear helmet-mounted cameras and heavy backpacks to record motions such as lifting cups, wiping tables, vacuuming, and organizing parts on conveyors, along with more unusual gestures. Shifts require substantial usable footage and often demand repetitive, exact movements; workers can be penalized if actions are not deemed "human enough." The effort aims to reduce robot clumsiness by providing dense, repeated human-motion examples for training robotic control systems.
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