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Akmon Data
Akmon Data

Human-in-the-loop labeling, live review and data capture.

Oakland, USA · 2026
Aktoria
Aktoria

Teleoperation software, 24/7 robot operators and teleop data for labs.

San Francisco, USA · 2026
Alpaca Labs
Alpaca Labs

First-person data collection across factories and labs in Latin America.

Mendoza, Argentina · 2023
Asimov
Asimov

YC W26. Sends capture kits to businesses and people to collect human movement data for humanoids.

Awign
Awign

Indian gig platform running large-scale egocentric video capture for robot training.

Axis Robotics
Axis Robotics

Browser-based teleoperation and crowd-sourced demos for physical AI data.

Berkeley, USA · 2025
Build AI
Build AI

Collects first-person video of factory work and publishes the Egocentric-10K open dataset.

San Francisco, USA · 2025
Claru
Claru

Sells training data for physical AI, including egocentric and demonstration datasets.

2025
Contracted AI
Contracted AI

Licenses egocentric datasets of real tasks; teleop, annotation and evals from a global contributor network.

Cortex
Cortex

Large-scale real-world robot and human data for embodied AI.

San Francisco, USA · 2025
Datoric
Datoric

YC S26. Custom egocentric video and action-conditioned data from 300k+ contributors.

DeepReach
DeepReach

YC S26. Ships stereo ego rigs to local operators who run data collection businesses.

Dexima AI
Dexima AI

Captures in-the-wild egocentric spatial data across 1,000+ factory and commercial sites, including expert surgery.

DexSet
DexSet

Sells raw and annotated real-world egocentric robotics training data.

Enact
Enact

Post-training layer for physical AI: finds failure states and generates targeted demonstrations.

San Francisco, USA · 2026
Exylos
Exylos

Workplace egocentric video and robot skill datasets for physical AI.

Gesto Data
Gesto Data

Gesto Data gives robotics labs real-world manipulation data at scale from skilled workers in Latin American workplaces.

Human Archive
Human Archive

Wearable rigs (headsets, tactile gloves, mocap suits) record people doing everyday tasks, mostly via gig workers in India.

San Francisco, USA · 2026
Human Loops
Human Loops

Egocentric capture, teleoperation and annotation for physical AI.

Nagpur, India · 2025
Hyphenbox
Hyphenbox

Turns raw robot episodes into densely annotated subtasks with failure spans.

San Francisco, USA · 2024
Inheritance AI
Inheritance AI

Turns human video into structured data for robotics.

San Francisco, USA · 2024
Luel
Luel

Rights-cleared data marketplace and custom contributor collection, including egocentric video subsets for robot training.

San Francisco, USA · 2025
Maxinsights
Maxinsights

Egocentric data vendor: annotated video, hand tracking, motion capture and tactile data.

San Francisco, USA · 2024
Mecka AI
Mecka AI

Captures human motion with body sensors and phones; sells the EgoVerse dataset, plus evaluation and deployment support.

New York, USA · 2024
Mercor
Mercor

Expert data company that also pays businesses for approved hours of recorded physical work.

San Francisco, USA
micro1
micro1

Expert-demonstrated robotics data for frontier robotics labs, alongside its broader AI training data services.

Mimix
Mimix

Contributor marketplace paying people per approved hour of egocentric video.

Neocambrian
Neocambrian

Egocentric human-action data captured with proprietary rigs and a factory network.

Noida, India · 2025
Pixelstwo
Pixelstwo

Curated tactile and dexterous manipulation data captured with proprietary hardware.

Praxis
Praxis

Industrial and residential egocentric video, 3D scans and multimodal capture.

San Francisco, USA · 2026
RoboX
RoboX

Real-world egocentric data infrastructure.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2025
Sensei
Sensei

YC S24. Connects robotics companies to a network of human operators recording demos.

Shaip
Shaip

Data services company running egocentric video collection and annotation projects.

Shofo
Shofo

YC W26. Licenses close-up video of expert physical work (electrical, surgical, carpentry) alongside other multimodal data.

San Francisco, USA
Shotwell
Shotwell

Dense robotics-data annotation and failure detection.

San Francisco, USA · 2026
Sieve
Sieve

Multimodal data lab that sources, filters and annotates video and other real-world data into training-ready datasets for frontier AI labs, including robotics and physical AI.

San Francisco, USA · 2022
Troveo
Troveo

Licensing marketplace for rights-cleared real-world video and other data sourced from content owners, including manipulation footage.

Austin, USA
Unidata
Unidata

Data collection and labeling shop that runs egocentric capture projects for physical AI.

Vision Lab
Vision Lab

YC X25. Annotated ego video from 2,000+ partner factories in 27 countries for industrial AI.

XDOF
XDOF

Teleoperation and wearable-sensor robot data collection; released the ABC-130K bimanual manipulation dataset with UC Berkeley.

Berkeley, USA · 2024
Appen
Appen

AI data services firm with a Physical AI product line sourced from its contributor network.

Sydney, Australia · 1996
Objectways
Objectways

Annotation vendor that also records head-mounted task footage in India for robotics clients.

Scottsdale, USA
Scale AI
Scale AI

Physical AI data engine: teleoperated and egocentric collection, data factories, and multimodal annotation for robotics labs.

San Francisco, USA · 2016
Toloka
Toloka

Managed crowd data provider expanding into distributed physical AI data collection.

Amsterdam, Netherlands · 2014
Lightwheel
Lightwheel

SimReady asset library, EgoSuite egocentric data and RoboFinals simulation-based evaluation of VLA models.

2023
Midcentury
Midcentury

Closed egocentric video dataset plus Matrix, a cloud simulation platform; emerged from stealth September 2026.

New York, USA
Bones Studio
Bones Studio

Optical motion-capture studio selling human motion datasets for humanoids, including the open BONES-SEED set.

Warsaw, Poland · 2013
Config
Config

Bimanual robot data operations, the Loop demonstration-to-policy platform, and the CFG-1 manipulation model.

San Jose, USA · 2025
DreamVu
DreamVu

Sells the Alia360 360-degree depth camera and runs custom robot data capture programs.

Philadelphia, USA · 2017
microagi
microagi

Shift records industrial work as training data; Atlas post-trains models and deploys robots on factory floors.

Munich, Germany · 2025
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