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Egocentric video, hand pose, gaze tracking, and force gloves for VLA pre-training.
Human demonstration is the process of a trained operator physically performing a task — grasping, pouring, assembling, navigating — while wearable sensors capture hand pose, gaze direction, body motion, and egocentric video. The resulting dataset teaches a policy how a human actually solves the task, not how a script approximates it.
Collecting demonstration data in-house means recruiting skilled operators, sourcing sensor rigs, building a logging pipeline, and running QA across thousands of episodes. We compress that into a managed program.
Why outsource demonstrations?
Your research team should be training models, not managing capture sessions. We handle recruitment, hardware, and quality so you get clean episodes on schedule.
50,000+ hours collected to date.
40 Hz hand pose tracking across all rigs.
3 continents of operator coverage.
Where we collect
41+ delivery centers across 12 countries. Every program runs from a Roborax hub near your target time zone.
Asia Pacific
India · Philippines
Americas
USA · Canada · Colombia · Jamaica · El Salvador · Belize
EMEA
UK · Albania · Kosovo · Morocco
Egocentric capture across hands, gaze, scene, and force — synchronized into a single timeline.
First-person scene capture at 60fps, calibrated for VLA pre-training.
Per-finger joint angles plus grasp state, at 40Hz.
Operator gaze fused with scene video for attention modeling.
Glove-based force data for contact-rich tasks.
A four-stage pipeline that lands clean multi-modal data in your bucket every week.
Spec the task domain and the demonstration patterns. Coverage matrix locked.
Train demonstrators on the capture protocol. Per-task acceptance criteria reviewed.
Synchronized multi-modal recording. On-rig validation flags drift.
Annotated, time-aligned dataset delivered as bag files or your custom format.
Best-in-class hardware for each modality.
Research glasses
Hand tracking
Per-finger gloves
Gaze glasses
Egocentric video
3rd-person sync
FAQ
Teleoperation uses a control interface — the operator never touches the robot. Human demonstration captures natural human motion directly, which is then used to train imitation learning policies. Both produce trajectory data but from different sources.
Operators are briefed on task objectives but not scripted on exact movements. This produces natural variation in approach and execution — which is exactly what imitation learning needs to generalize.
Our operator network spans diverse demographics, hand sizes, grip strengths, and experience levels. If your task requires a specific operator profile — handedness, physical dimensions, domain expertise — we can filter for it.
Every demonstration is reviewed against a task specification before acceptance. Outliers are flagged and sent back for re-capture. Inter-operator consistency metrics are included in every delivery report.
From the blog
VR Teleop vs. Physical DemonstrationWhich method produces better training data and when.
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Teleop Operator Fatigue: The Hidden VariableHow fatigue affects data quality and what to do about it.
Specify the scene domain and modality mix. We scope a sized program in two days.
FROM THE FIELD
Warehouse robots underperform in production not because of the model, but because training data missed the edge cases that matter.
Sub-millimeter precision, HIPAA compliance, and credentialed operators — surgical robot data has requirements general robotics programs cannot meet.
Robotics data quality is not a review meeting. At production scale it is automated validation, per-operator metrics, and same-day feedback loops.
Robot annotation is not image labeling with a new name. Temporal structure and task semantics demand distinct tooling and annotator qualification.
Simulation offers unlimited training data at zero cost. The sim-to-real gap is a structural problem, not a rendering one.
Language models scaled on internet data. Embodied AI must build its data from the physical world — and that changes everything.
Seven services. One synchronized pipeline.
VR and leader-follower robot control logging.
RGB-D, LiDAR, force, and tactile streams.
Bounding boxes, segmentation, action labels.
Domain-randomized scenes and sim transfers.
Held-out test sets and success-rate scoring.
Rare scenarios your policy will face in production.
