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By Prompt AI News1 min read
According to a recent report by TechCrunch, Silicon Valley-based startup Human Archive has raised $8.2 million from prominent investors like Wing Venture Capital, Y Combinator, and angels from OpenAI and Nvidia to train the world's robots using India's booming gig economy. The company deploys wearable tech—such as custom camera caps, tactile gloves, and full-body motion capture suits—on home service, hotel, and restaurant gig workers to capture first-person, multi-sensor data of everyday manual tasks. To secure real-world footage, the startup partners with smaller domestic platforms to offer consumers home service discounts if they consent to being recorded, ensuring compliance with India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act through anonymization and face-blurring. Despite facing high-profile rejections and public pushback from major Indian home-service platforms like Urban Company and Pronto—as well as drawing scrutiny from India's tech ministry regarding consumer consent mechanisms—Human Archive is already piloting expansions into Southeast Asia and the U.S. to fulfill the AI industry's massive hunger for physical training data.
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