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Notes on capture, operators, and ground truth.

Research · Oct 2026 · 9 min read Does egocentric human video actually train robots? Yes, with conditions. What 2026 studies show about human-to-robot transfer, how much egocentric video helps, and what buyers should spec.
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Company · Sep 2026 · 5 min read What it would take to become India's largest human data provider India already has the floors. Becoming the largest human data provider means rights-cleared egocentric access across them - through decades of trusted relationships, not cold outreach and open hour dumps.
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Company · Sep 2026 · 4 min read The scarce input in physical AI is access to real work Rights-cleared access to real workplaces and operators is the bottleneck for egocentric physical AI capture. What labs published, what open datasets left open, and how we are standing up floors.
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Company · Sep 2026 · 2 min read Announcing Zirconoid The talent engine for operator data. Why the bottleneck on frontier data is access to real operators and the sites they work in, and what we are building to fix it.
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Capture · Sep 2026 · 2 min read Why egocentric capture is the hardest data to fake First-person video of real work carries information no synthetic pipeline reproduces. Notes from running capture on factory floors.
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Operations · Aug 2026 · 2 min read How we recruit operators by the hour Staffing capture scenarios is a recruiting problem before it is a data problem. How we source sites and operators, vet them, and pay the people who produce ground truth.
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