AI has read everything on the internet, now it's watching how we live to train robots

AI systems are expanding beyond text processing to learn physical tasks from first-person video recordings of human demonstrations. Data labeling companies employ thousands of workers who record and annotate everyday actions like folding towels, noting precise movements, gestures, and object interactions. This demonstration data fuels robotics development at Tesla, Google, and OpenAI as they build foundation models for physical tasks. Nvidia estimates the humanoid robot market could reach $38 billion within ten years.