Instawork turns its gig marketplace into a robot-training data line
Instacore puts five cameras and a compute backpack on workers to capture commercial tasks for AI labs, with customers still unnamed.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Aligned News - AI Intelligence
Why it matters
Instawork is testing whether labor marketplaces can become data suppliers for physical AI. If robotics labs need real-world task data more than another simulation run, platforms with worker networks and commercial-site access gain new leverage.
Instawork CEO Sumir Meghani is turning the company's hourly labor marketplace into a physical AI data operation, launching Instacore, a wearable camera system for workers to record commercial tasks that robotics companies can use to train models, Business Insider reported on June 9th.…
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