📰 Collecting robot training data is considered dirty and unglamorous work by some AI labs, prompting them to pay XDOF for this essential task. 🔗 https:// techcr
XDOF, a startup emerging from stealth, has raised $70 million to address the critical need for robot training data. The company aims to build the necessary data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems that frontier AI labs and robotics companies struggle to develop internally. XDOF is already collaborating with 20 customers, including major AI labs, and is partnering with UC Berkeley to release the ABC dataset, a large collection of robot manipulation data. AI
IMPACT This funding addresses the critical data bottleneck for physical AI, potentially accelerating robotics development.