First-person video recording for robot training, $6–$18 reward per task

Memories.ai launched its Memories Upload platform on October 28, paying participants $6–$18 per task to film first-person videos of manual work—cooking, store stocking, and equipment repair—using its sub-45-gram LUCI Pin wearable camera, which the San Francisco company provides to contributors. The crowdsourced footage is annotated in detail and supplied to robotics and model-development labs as training data. The model matters because embodied-AI developers are scrambling for real-world, egocentric video that lab or synthetic datasets cannot easily replicate, and paying workers per task could scale data collection faster than bespoke recording setups. What to watch next: whether Memories.ai expands its contributor base and camera hardware beyond the U.S., and whether robotics labs sign on as anchor buyers of the annotated dataset.