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Robotics has a data problem, and egocentric data is a compelling way to solve it because egocentric data is (1) scalable — it’s cheap to collect — and (2) easily captures the breadth and diversity of real human tasks, while (3) being true to real physics. Lightwheel recently released... show more
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Cleaning, assembly and retail give very different views of how people handle objects. I'd be keen to see the awkward moments preserved too: regrasping, failed insertions and recovery. Those could be some of the most useful frames for a robot.

Egocentric data could unlock far more capable robots

Egocentric coverage is valuable because it preserves the awkward recoveries. The next test is whether those long-tail moments remain legible after annotation.

How much of that unspoken human caution survives in the training data?

The annotation on a hundred thousand hours is not a small thing to give away for free.

The data bottleneck is shifting to a data fire hose by the day
