Better this than the Bot Company, which has been apparently renting out AirBnBs for robot testing and leaving them trashed: https://sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/sf-startup-secretly-testin...
necubi
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用户讨论的核心场景是家庭清洁机器人训练数据的获取。现有流程中，公司要么通过雇佣人员佩戴摄像头或传感器记录家务动作（如评论中提到的Craigslist招聘），要么通过实际清洁服务（如Shift公司免费清洁）来收集数据。这些方法成本高昂、效率低，且可能引发隐私问题（如评论提到的Airbnb秘密测试）。此外，评论指出已有更便宜的替代方案（如印度的人力数据采集），说明当前数据采集方式在成本上存在明显劣势。这导致机器人训练数据获取缓慢、成本高，阻碍了家庭清洁机器人的实用化进程。
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"I always thought that Homejoy were planning to automate as much as possible, if not everything, related to cleaning services using robotics and stuff, and that humans were only a temporary measure while developing technology." -devgutt 2015 [0] This quote about robots doing home cleaning has been living in my head rent free, and refusing to cleanup after itself, for over a decade. It seemed so crazy to me in 2015 that anyone would seriously consider home cleaning robots to be on a realistic timeline. Yet here we are in 2026 and robots could plausibly clean our homes beyond vacuuming and mopping. Humans training robots now completely makes sense to me. I think Sunday Robotics use of people wearing "skill capture gloves" [1] that both capture data and limit range of motion to that of the robotic hands is particularly clever. I wish success to both these and other companies in the space, so that someday soon there will be just a little fewer housework around the house, and we move a bit closer to the Jetsons. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9986693 [1] https://youtu.be/QeVnwtCANZ8?si=JoSps5MCxs7zPp0f&t=33
aleyan
Ha! My wife just asked me about a random job she found on Craigslist the other day. It was for what looked like a shell company, offering $10/hr to have you strap a camera to your head while you do specific chores like laundry, dishes, etc. She asked me what I thought it was and I said "someone is farming training data." Turns out.
rglover
Even if somehow this was a good idea, it seems like an expensive way to do it when apparently in they are already doing it for much cheaper in India. https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/human-archive-taps-into-in...
darth_avocado
I've always found the idea of letting strangers clean my home strange. Maybe I grew up in the wrong tax bracket. I see cleaning your own home, as well as other chores (dishes, laundry) as an act of self-hygiene. If you want a robot to do your chores, that gives me the same feeling as desiring a robot to bathe you, wipe your bottom and genitals after the toilet, brush your teeth for you etc. Of course these are not apples to oranges, but I can't shake the feeling that you lose something about being a living, breathing being when you give up these mundane chores.
hsnv
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