This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots
The Verge
The startup Shift offers free home cleaning services in exchange for recording cleaners to collect data for training AI robots.Summary
The AI startup Shift is offering free home cleaning services in select cities, with the objective of gathering training data for future robots. Cleaners wear a camera-equipped hat to record household tasks from their point of view, providing the company with footage of activities like mopping, scrubbing, and dishwashing. While Shift claims to anonymize sensitive data and protect customer privacy, the service essentially trades cleaning labor for valuable human-activity datasets. The company plans to expand from cleaning to other services like cooking and plumbing as it seeks to advance autonomous robot capabilities.
(Source：The Verge)