Another day, another Robotics Lab delivering millions of hours of egocentric human experience and data. Do you remember a couple years ago when everyone was complaining that we didn’t have enough data for robotics? Well, now it’s definitely getting to the point where that bottleneck is starting to disappear. This is why I’m glad there are so many NeoLabs popping up measuring body motion, object interaction, tactile force, 3D structure, etc. (and in Maxinsights’ case, capturing 3D structure instead of just raw first-person video). Their scaling thesis is also pretty interesting an hour of someone repeatedly doing one clean task is not worth the same as an hour full of different objects, contacts, failures, recoveries, tool use, and corrections. So they basically think of it as effective experience = hours × information per hour, meaning the fuck ups and how humans recover from them are part of the valuable data too.