Robot mentoring
Indian housewives with phones on their heads train humanoids that will perform household jobs in future
Updated: 2026-06-22 11:11
In other rooms, colleagues arranged pencil sharpeners, water bottles and crayons in patterns, recording with depth-sensor cameras.
Qanat Consulting Services in Andhra Pradesh, an Objectways subcontractor, supplies about a dozen larger data firms with recordings. Some of its 2,000 contributors perform tasks with motion-sensor bands on their "wrists, hands and legs", CEO Thaslim Pattan said.
Manish Agarwal of Bengaluru-based Humyn Labs records conversations as well as videos.
Contributors discuss assigned topics — ranging from politics to entertainment — for clients wanting to process speech patterns. Agarwal denies that robots will steal jobs, believing that networks of humans and robots "will work together" one day, he said.
"A welder in India could be managing a welder-robot in Prague," he said.
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