Gig workers around the world, including Mohamad Dunggio in Indonesia, are earning money by recording themselves performing household tasks from a first-person perspective to train robots. These egocentric videos help robotics researchers teach humanoid robots how to handle domestic tasks, with companies like Appen collecting tens of thousands of hours monthly from workers across multiple countries.
UBTECH Robotics opened the world's first intelligent humanoid robot manufacturing facility in Liuzhou, China, with capacity to produce 10,000 units annually using a 'robots building robots' model. The 14,000-square-meter smart factory, jointly developed with Siemens, produces the Walker S and Cruzr series robots and demonstrates China's advanced manufacturing capabilities and supply chain strength.