Ex-Meta Startup Launches Gig Platform for Robot Training Data
Overview
Memories.ai, founded by former Meta researchers Shawn Shen and Ben Zhou, has launched Memories Upload, a global gig-work platform where contributors use wearable LUCI Pin cameras to record first-person video of tasks like food preparation and equipment repair for robot training.
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“Memories.ai is paying people to show robots how to do their jobs. The San Francisco startup supplies first-person video data for robot training, with cameras capturing the hands-on details of preparing food, stocking shelves and repairing equipment. The company is launching Memories Upload, a global gig-work platform where contributors take paid video-recording tasks to help train robots. Its wearable LUCI Pin camera”
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“Memories.ai is paying people to show robots how to do their jobs. The San Francisco startup supplies first-person video data for robot training, with cameras capturing the hands-on details of preparing food, stocking shelves and repairing equipment. The company is launching Memories Upload, a global gig-work platform where contributors take paid video-recording tasks to help train robots. Its wearable LUCI Pin camera”
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Reported quantity · video hours recorded in beta month: 1000000 hours · Basis not reported
“, developed by Memories.ai, weighs under 45 grams and attaches magnetically to mounts worn on a person’s head, chest or wrist. It captures POV video of the contributors doing various tasks. Two cameras can be paired for stereo capture, providing views that help estimate depth. Memories.ai says its network recorded more than 1 million hours of first-person video in the platform’s first month in beta and that it aims t”
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Reported quantity · target video hours by March 2027: 10000000 hours · Basis not reported · Differing source assertions
“o collect more than 10 million hours by March 2027. The company was founded by former Meta researchers Shawn Shen and Ben Zhou. The company has raised $16 million in venture capital funding to date, including an $8 million seed round in July 2025 led by Susa Ventures, with investors including Samsung Next, and an $8 million “seed extension” in June this year. Humanoid robotics startup Figure and Physical Intelligence”
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Reported quantity · seed round funding July 2025: 8000000 other · Basis not reported
“o collect more than 10 million hours by March 2027. The company was founded by former Meta researchers Shawn Shen and Ben Zhou. The company has raised $16 million in venture capital funding to date, including an $8 million seed round in July 2025 led by Susa Ventures, with investors including Samsung Next, and an $8 million “seed extension” in June this year. Humanoid robotics startup Figure and Physical Intelligence”
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Reported quantity · seed extension funding June 2026: 8000000 other · Basis not reported
“o collect more than 10 million hours by March 2027. The company was founded by former Meta researchers Shawn Shen and Ben Zhou. The company has raised $16 million in venture capital funding to date, including an $8 million seed round in July 2025 led by Susa Ventures, with investors including Samsung Next, and an $8 million “seed extension” in June this year. Humanoid robotics startup Figure and Physical Intelligence”
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Reported quantity · camera weight: 45 other · Basis not reported
“, developed by Memories.ai, weighs under 45 grams and attaches magnetically to mounts worn on a person’s head, chest or wrist. It captures POV video of the contributors doing various tasks. Two cameras can be paired for stereo capture, providing views that help estimate depth. Memories.ai says its network recorded more than 1 million hours of first-person video in the platform’s first month in beta and that it aims t”
Exact source · revision 2Source owner not reported
“, developed by Memories.ai, weighs under 45 grams and attaches magnetically to mounts worn on a person’s head, chest or wrist. It captures POV video of the contributors doing various tasks. Two cameras can be paired for stereo capture, providing views that help estimate depth. Memories.ai says its network recorded more than 1 million hours of first-person video in the platform’s first month in beta and that it aims t”
Exact source · revision 2Source owner not reported
Reported quantity · video hours recorded: 1000000 hours · Basis not reported
“, developed by Memories.ai, weighs under 45 grams and attaches magnetically to mounts worn on a person’s head, chest or wrist. It captures POV video of the contributors doing various tasks. Two cameras can be paired for stereo capture, providing views that help estimate depth. Memories.ai says its network recorded more than 1 million hours of first-person video in the platform’s first month in beta and that it aims t”
Exact source · revision 2Source owner not reported
Reported quantity · target video hours by March 2027: 10000000 hours · Basis not reported · Differing source assertions
“o collect more than 10 million hours by March 2027. The company was founded by former Meta researchers Shawn Shen and Ben Zhou. The company announced an $8 million seed round in July 2025 led by Susa Ventures, with investors including Samsung Next. Humanoid robotics startup Figure and Physical Intelligence, a startup that builds AI software “brains” that can control a variety of different types of robots and embodied”
Exact source · revision 2Source owner not reported
Reported quantity · video hours recorded in first month of beta: 1000000 hours · Basis not reported
“, developed by Memories.ai, weighs under 45 grams and attaches magnetically to mounts worn on a person’s head, chest or wrist. It captures POV video of the contributors doing various tasks. Two cameras can be paired for stereo capture, providing views that help estimate depth. Memories.ai says its network recorded more than 1 million hours of first-person video in the platform’s first month in beta and that it aims t”
Exact source · revision 2Source owner not reported
Reported quantity · seed round amount: 8000000 other · Basis not reported
“o collect more than 10 million hours by March 2027. The company was founded by former Meta researchers Shawn Shen and Ben Zhou. The company announced an $8 million seed round in July 2025 led by Susa Ventures, with investors including Samsung Next. Humanoid robotics startup Figure and Physical Intelligence, a startup that builds AI software “brains” that can control a variety of different types of robots and embodied”
Exact source · revision 2Source owner not reported
Dataset · modalities: first-person video · Differing source assertions
“Memories.ai is paying people to show robots how to do their jobs. The San Francisco startup supplies first-person video data for robot training, with cameras capturing the hands-on details of preparing food, stocking shelves and repairing equipment. The company is launching Memories Upload, a global gig-work platform where contributors take paid video-recording tasks to help train robots. Its wearable LUCI Pin camera”
Exact source · revision 2Source owner not reported
Dataset · modalities: stereo capture · Differing source assertions
“, developed by Memories.ai, weighs under 45 grams and attaches magnetically to mounts worn on a person’s head, chest or wrist. It captures POV video of the contributors doing various tasks. Two cameras can be paired for stereo capture, providing views that help estimate depth. Memories.ai says its network recorded more than 1 million hours of first-person video in the platform’s first month in beta and that it aims t”
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Dataset · tasks: preparing food · Differing source assertions
“Memories.ai is paying people to show robots how to do their jobs. The San Francisco startup supplies first-person video data for robot training, with cameras capturing the hands-on details of preparing food, stocking shelves and repairing equipment. The company is launching Memories Upload, a global gig-work platform where contributors take paid video-recording tasks to help train robots. Its wearable LUCI Pin camera”
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Dataset · tasks: stocking shelves · Differing source assertions
“Memories.ai is paying people to show robots how to do their jobs. The San Francisco startup supplies first-person video data for robot training, with cameras capturing the hands-on details of preparing food, stocking shelves and repairing equipment. The company is launching Memories Upload, a global gig-work platform where contributors take paid video-recording tasks to help train robots. Its wearable LUCI Pin camera”
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Dataset · tasks: repairing equipment · Differing source assertions
“Memories.ai is paying people to show robots how to do their jobs. The San Francisco startup supplies first-person video data for robot training, with cameras capturing the hands-on details of preparing food, stocking shelves and repairing equipment. The company is launching Memories Upload, a global gig-work platform where contributors take paid video-recording tasks to help train robots. Its wearable LUCI Pin camera”
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Dataset · tasks: everyday tasks · Differing source assertions
“AI devices, are both exploring how robots can learn from POV video footage. Figure’s Index platform pays people to record everyday tasks for its Helix AI models. Physical Intelligence has tested combining human video with teleoperation data, which is recorded as people control robots remotely, demonstrating how to complete tasks or handle unfamiliar objects and environments. Physical Intelligence co-founder Sergey L”
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- Robotics — Robot learning news discoverySignalIn the race for robot training data, ex-Meta researchers' startup turns to gig workers with cameras
Memories.ai, a San Francisco startup founded by former Meta researchers Shawn Shen and Ben Zhou, is launching Memories Upload, a global gig-work platform where contributors use wearable LUCI Pin cameras to record first-person video of tasks like food preparation and equipment repair for robot training.
- Robotics — Robot learning news discoverySignalIn the race for robot training data, ex-Meta researchers' startup turns to gig workers with cameras
Memories.ai is a San Francisco startup founded by former Meta researchers Shawn Shen and Ben Zhou that supplies first-person video data for robot training through its Memories Upload platform.
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