Encord pairs muscle signals with video to train robots through hand occlusion

Co-founders Eric Landau and Ulrik Stig Hansen are adding biological data to Encord's robotics work with an open dataset and a new research division.

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Encord is extending its data business into signals that cameras miss, positioning the company to serve robotics teams earlier in the training-data pipeline. The dataset's value will depend on whether outside researchers can reproduce the gains and apply them to real deployments.

Encord pairs muscle signals with video to train robots through hand occlusion — Co-founders Eric Landau and Ulrik Stig Hansen are adding biological data to Encord's robotics work with an open dataset and a new research division.

Encord co-founder and co-CEO Eric Landau is extending Encord's data business to a part of human movement that cameras miss: the electrical signals in the forearm that drive finger motion. On October 20th, Encord released EMG-1, an open dataset pairing those muscle signals with first-person video and optical motion capture…

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