Robot mentoring
Indian housewives with phones on their heads train humanoids that will perform household jobs in future
Updated: 2026-06-22 11:11
"Some jobs are supposed to be taken over, so humans can go and do better things."
In India, the emerging field of spatial AI is providing new employment.
"It's likely that these data collection services will increase," said digital labor expert Aditi Surie, from the Indian Institute for Human Settlements in Bengaluru.
At an Objectways studio, AI system trainers film themselves performing household tasks in fake, fully furnished apartment rooms.
After several thousand hours of filming, the wallpaper is changed to provide clients with variety.
"Today I sit here, tomorrow I stand there," said engineering graduate Rani N.,21, on a break from filming herself, once again, folding a towel.
Each video lasts about four minutes, and she records around 90 a day — on nearly every conceivable spot on the bed.
She says the job is "tolerable", but feels like she's always wearing a camera.
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