Workers in Shenzhen are training humanoid robots by controlling them with VR-style body rigs, WIRED reports. The setup lets humans demonstrate movements that robots can learn from.
The work shows the labor behind robotics data collection. Even as companies market autonomous humanoids, many systems still depend on human teleoperation, demonstrations, and correction to build usable behavior.
The trend also suggests a new kind of AI infrastructure job: people generating embodied training data for robots in factories, labs, and hardware hubs.