Ropedia launches next-gen wearable capture device for robotic AI training data
Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. today announced the launch of HOMIE Gen2, the next generation of the company’s head-mounted wearable that records human movement data to train robots.
Smart robotics requires tremendous amounts of high-quality data taken from various environments. Most of the training data used to build the artificial intelligence foundation models that drive robots comes from videos of humans doing tasks such as picking up objects, moving them and completing other simple or procedural tasks.
Not all of this video content exists in forms that can be easily transformed into useful data for training robots.
“Scaling laws make large language models work because more data equals better results,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Zhaoxi Chen. “Physical AI runs on the same law, except the data needs to come from someone actually doing the job. For example, imagine learning how to drive by only sitting in the back seat.”
