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Shift will tidy up your home for free, but will record the chores to train robots

Digital Trends·Sudhanshu Kumar Mangalam·3 days ago
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Home Emerging Tech News Everyday chores are becoming the raw material for future home robots Shift Shift is offering to clean homes for free, but there is one important condition. The company will record those chores to build training data for future home robots. The New York-based startup is currently offering free cleaning services, in which a vetted operator visits a home and wears a camera-equipped device while performing routine household work. The footage can then help AI systems understand how people clean homes outside controlled lab settings. Your messy home is valuable AI training data AI companies have already used text, images, and videos from the internet to train software models . But robots need a different kind of data . They need to understand physical spaces, household objects, and the messy logic of everyday chores. Tesla A robot cannot learn home cleaning only from staged lab videos.…

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