This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots
Key takeaways
- In the last few years, India s online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public and an increase in the number of cloud kitchens.
- The startup was founded by two Berkeley and two Stanford students — Samay Mani, Rushil Agarwal, Shloke Patel, and Raj Patel, the latter two being cousins.
- The company s founding is a direct bet on where the AI industry is heading.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
In the last few years, India s online food delivery market has grown significantly, with both Zomato and Swiggy going public and an increase in the number of cloud kitchens. Meanwhile, startups working on home services, such as on-demand household staffing platforms like Urban Company, Snabbit, and Pronto, have gained popularity.
Silicon Valley-based start-up Human Archive is tapping into this trend, partnering with these companies to have workers wear special caps with cameras to collect egocentric (first-person point of view) video data of everyday tasks that could be used to train robots.
Without naming specific partners, the startup said it is working with companies in the home services, hostel, and restaurant sectors to collect egocentric data, and it says it has more than 1,000 active headsets deployed across multiple locations.