Training Robots on Video: Startup Shift Offers Free House Cleaning
Startup Shift wants to clean your house for free. The catch is simple: the company films its workers and uses the footage to train cleaning robots. By Shift's estimates, the value of that video data outweighs the entire cost of running the service.
AI-processed from The Verge; edited by Hamidun News
Startup Shift is taking an unusual approach to cleaning services: it sends cleaners to your home and does the job completely free of charge, but films the work along the way to train home robots.
How does the startup pay for free cleaning?
Shift uses the cleaning footage to train its home robots. The founders estimate that the video is valuable enough to fully fund the cleaning service.
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