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Indian housewives with phones on their heads train humanoids that will perform household jobs in future

Updated: 2026-06-22 11:11
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A housewife wears a smartphone on her head as she records her actions through motion capture while watering plants at her home in Chennai, India, on May 15. R. SATISH BABU/AFP

Developers think feeding first-person footage, called "egocentric data", into specialized AI models will help robots copy humans.

Some AI trainers work at home, others in factories or specialized studios — using video glasses, head-mounted cameras and motion sensors.

"It blares 'hands not detected' when I'm not recording properly," said Sriramyachandra, who sends recordings via a special app to the AI data company Objectways.

The humanoid robot market is booming, with investment bank Morgan Stanley predicting there could be over a billion in use by 2050, mostly for industrial and commercial purposes.

"Folding clothes, coffee-making … cooking a very specific thing, sandwich-making," Objectways head Ravi Shankar said, listing videos requested by clients.

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