AI companies are paying humans to generate robot training data → Mecka AI raised $60M and is reportedly nearing a $500M valuation with another round, to collect data from people doing everyday tasks, from making coffee to fixing cars → Figure says Index collected 16M+ videos from over 100 countries in four months and paid contributors $15M → XDOF has raised $70M and already works with around 20 customers, including frontier AI labs → LLMs had the internet. Robots need data on how humans actually move, manipulate objects and complete physical tasks #AI #Robotics #PhysicalAI #Tech #Humanoid