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A new category of company has emerged in India with a specific brief: produce the human-generated video training data that robot developers in the United States and China need to teach their machines routine physical tasks.
Several such firms have now taken shape, according to the Inside India newsletter, which frames their rise as India's way into an AI race it had largely watched from the outside.
The product is straightforward — people demonstrating tasks on video — but the supply chain it feeds reaches into the most capital-intensive corners of global automation.
The Input Layer of Robotics Training Teaching a robot to perform a routine physical task requires demonstration data — video of humans actually doing what the machine is supposed to learn.
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