India’s workers are training AI robots to take their jobs
Key takeaways
- Developers believe that feeding first-person footage into specialised AI models will help robots imitate human behaviour.
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- Earning 250 rupees ($2.6) for one hour of video, her mundane recordings are invaluable for global tech companies teaching machines how to move like humans in the real world.
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Developers believe that feeding first-person footage into specialised AI models will help robots imitate human behaviour.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo. A worker wearing an RGB camera on her head, recording actions through motion capture while arranging coloured blocks at AI data company Objectways' office in Tamil Nadu's Karur district, India. [R Satish Babu/AFP]By AFPPublished On 11 Jun 202611 Jun 2026With a smartphone strapped to her head, Indian housewife Nagireddy Sriramyachandra films herself slicing mangoes to train artificial intelligence-powered robots to take on household tasks in the future.
Earning 250 rupees ($2.6) for one hour of video, her mundane recordings are invaluable for global tech companies teaching machines how to move like humans in the real world.