Indian workers are wearing head cameras and motion sensors to record daily household chores, earning over $3 per hour. Householders cut mangoes and wash dishes to help humanoid robots learn human-like movements. The data is collected by Objectways, a firm whose clients include Fortune 500 companies. Workers operate in textile factories and furnished studio apartments. One worker records up to 90 clips a day, each lasting 4 minutes. Objectways subcontractor Qanat Consulting Services manages 2,000 workers wearing tracking bands on their limbs. CEO Ravi Shankar stated that certain jobs must be automated so humans can focus on more useful tasks. The data annotation industry is growing rapidly as India aims to become a global hub for AI. Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley predicts the global population of humanoid robots will exceed 1 billion by 2050. submitted by /u/andrewaltair
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