Human Archive, a startup founded by Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices to collect the real-world physical training data that AI and robotics labs are racing to acquire.

This sponsored article is brought to you by Wetour Robotics.A field technician on a wind turbine, harness clipped, both hands on a wrench, needs to send a command to the diagnostic device hanging at her belt. A logistics worker on a loading dock, glov…
Samsung, Hyundai and LG just bet on the startup that wants to be robotics’ data backbone.
Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.
The company turns footage from robots into structured, searchable datasets with a deep learning model.
Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google’s domain.
Zanskar has raised $115 million to find about a dozen geothermal resources that could help power the grid throughout the U.S. West.
The automotive-focused company is looking to expand its Ethernet-based processors to fields like robotics.
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.”
After years of chatbots and image generators, AI is finally leaving the screen. At CES 2026, that shift became impossible to ignore. The annual tech showcase in Las Vegas was dominated by “physical AI” and robotics, from Bos…