Instawork turns its gig marketplace into a robot-training data line

Instawork CEO Sumir Meghani launched Instacore, a wearable camera system that allows hourly workers to record commercial tasks for robotics companies to train AI models, Business Insider reported June 9. The initiative followed Meghani's observation that robotics firms were already posting shifts on Instawork's labor marketplace last year.

Instawork CEO Sumir Meghani is turning the company's hourly labor marketplace into a physical AI data operation, launching Instacore, a wearable camera system for workers to record commercial tasks that robotics companies can use to train models, Business Insider reported on June 9. The move did not start as a pure robotics strategy. Meghani told Business Insider that Instawork noticed robotics companies posting shifts on its platform last year, then he began walking with robotics founders ne...