Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores

AI robotics startups are offering free or paid cleaning work in exchange for video and sensor data to train robots on real-world chores.

Shift said it will clean homes for free if it can record cleaners at work, while firms like Pronto and Human Archive are gathering first-person footage.

The push spans places including New York, London, and India, where companies are turning everyday labor into training data.

The trend shows how physical AI needs large real-world datasets, but it also raises privacy and consent concerns for workers and households.