One such source of data is what is called teleoperation. You can think of teleoperation as the robotics equivalent of people driving around San Francisco with Waymo cars or people operating Salesforce CRM and selling RL environments to a model lab. In both of those examples, in a car, you have a gas pedal and a steering wheel for a human to... See more

At that point, it’s a lot easier to collect data. It’s a lot harder to sift through it. I think the value proposition of a company that just simply collects large corpus of data is much smaller than a company that says, we will follow your specifications about quality and we will deliver you that because lot of the labor and a lot of the software... See more