Gesture Data Collection for AI Training Is Spreading in India and China

The collection of 'motion data' for training humanoid robots and physical AI is rapidly increasing in India and China. According to the article, a housewife in Chennai, India, fixes a smartphone to her head and films herself cutting mangoes and doing housework, and the firstperson videos created this way are used as training material for robot behavior. This work involves recording real actions such as a person picking up and moving objects, or adjusting fingers and wrists, so that robots can learn by imitation. In India, housewives and factory and construction workers are participating in data collection, while in China, residents, care workers, and farm workers are taking part. A Chinese ecommerce company is pursuing a plan to secure a largescale supply of robot training videos together with local governments, and in Korea as well, there are cases of recording work motions at hotels and logistics sites and using them as robot data. Experts believe that the performance of physical AI depends on how diverse and highquality the behavioral data it can secure is.