What Data Robots Need: From Co-Designed Handheld Capture to Fleet-Scale Flywheels
Date:
Invited talk at the It’s the Demos workshop (A Deep Look at the Role of Demonstration Quality in Imitation-Based Robot Manipulation) at RSS 2026 in Sydney, Australia.
The talk traces the arc of robot data collection across my work at the RAI Institute and at Data Factory 1 (DF1), Tutor Intelligence’s 100-robot fleet: from co-designed handheld force-based capture for in-the-wild demonstrations to the fleet-scale data flywheels that keep demonstration quality high across a large, internationally distributed operator pool.