Rural women mentor robots: the grassroots supply chain of embodied AI data collection

Rural women in Henan wear data-collection devices to gather embodied AI training data, earning 80 yuan a day and more than 2,000 yuan a month; their job title is data collector. After Nvidia's EgoScale results were released, bodyless collection became the mainstream method, greatly lowering the barrier to entry and drawing in grassroots workers such as labor outsourcing firms, street promoters, and loan brokers.