{"name":"Who Is Buying Robot Training Data: Deals, Paid Programs and Dataset Releases (live data, 3 Oct 2023 to 18 Oct 2026)","question":"Which companies pay for, license, commission or release training data for robots, embodied AI, autonomous vehicles and drones, from whom, and what kind of data?","source":"Company announcements, filings and reporting by major outlets, each linked beside its record with a verbatim quote kept in the dataset.","publisher":"RobotTraining.jobs","url":"https://robottraining.jobs/research/robot-training-data-deals","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"RobotTraining.jobs (2026). Who Is Buying Robot Training Data: Deals, Paid Programs and Dataset Releases (live data, 3 Oct 2023 to 18 Oct 2026). https://robottraining.jobs/research/robot-training-data-deals (accessed 18 Oct 2026)","frozen_at":null,"report":"robot-training-data-deals","method":1,"edition":null,"window":{"from":"2023-10-03","to":"2026-10-18","days":1112},"computedAt":"2026-10-18T16:36:36.842Z","summary":"From 1 Jan 2023 to 18 Oct 2026, 59 deals, paid programs and dataset releases for robot, embodied-AI, AV and drone training data are on record, involving 50 buyers.","stats":[{"id":"deals","value":"59","label":"deals, paid programs and dataset releases since 2023","figure":"deals"},{"id":"buyers","value":"50","label":"buyers named","figure":"buyers"},{"id":"paid","value":"11","label":"programs paying the public to record data","figure":"deals"}],"findings":[{"id":"top-buyer","figure":"buyers","text":"NVIDIA appears most often as a buyer (4 records: av driving data and mixed)."},{"id":"paid-programs","figure":"deals","text":"11 programs pay members of the public directly to record or produce robot training data, the latest launched 4 Oct 2026 (micro1 (for an unnamed customer project))."},{"id":"disclosed","figure":"deals","text":"11 of 59 records state an amount; the rest do not disclose what was paid."},{"id":"busiest-year","figure":"deals-by-year","text":"2026 has the most records so far (34)."}],"figures":[{"id":"deals","title":"Deals, paid programs and dataset releases","question":"Who has paid for, licensed, commissioned or released robot training data, from whom, and what kind?","columns":[{"key":"buyer","label":"Buyer","unit":"text"},{"key":"seller","label":"From","unit":"text"},{"key":"kind","label":"Kind of deal","unit":"text"},{"key":"data","label":"Data","unit":"text","secondary":true},{"key":"date","label":"Date","unit":"text"},{"key":"summary","label":"What it is","unit":"text","secondary":true},{"key":"amount","label":"Amount","unit":"text","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"2026-10-07-0","source":{"label":"BetaKit","url":"https://betakit.com/mecka-ai-reveals-60-million-usd-series-b-round-backed-by-sequoia-nvidia/","date":"2026-10-07"},"cells":{"buyer":"unnamed frontier robotics labs and Big Tech firms","seller":"Mecka AI","kind":"Contract","data":"Egocentric video","date":"7 Oct 2026","summary":"Mecka AI, which pays people to record everyday tasks with body sensors and phones, said it converts that first-person data into training data for multiple frontier robotics labs and Big Tech firms, and claimed a revenue run-rate above 100 million dollars in June 2026.","amount":"surpassed a $100-million USD run-rate in June"}},{"key":"2026-10-04-1","href":"/platforms/micro1","source":{"label":"AlignList (micro1 job posting)","url":"https://alignlist.com/jobs/micro1-car-mounted-360-video-recorder-36e1b1f6-b8bf-4273-a09a-94116a1f4b39","date":"2026-10-04"},"cells":{"buyer":"micro1 (for an unnamed customer project)","seller":"public contributors","kind":"Paid program","data":"AV driving data","date":"4 Oct 2026","summary":"micro1 posted a paid program for contributors with a 360 degree action camera to record their vehicles navigating real-world roads from a trailing third-person view for a customer project, paying 15 to 20 US dollars per hour per approved video.","amount":"$15-20 USD/hour per approved video"}},{"key":"2026-09-25-2","source":{"label":"GOV.UK (Ministry of Defence)","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/news/british-companies-to-access-prized-ukraine-data-to-develop-ai-drone-swarms","date":"2026-09-25"},"cells":{"buyer":"UK Ministry of Defence (for up to 12 UK companies)","seller":"Ukraine Ministry of Defence (Avengers AI Labs)","kind":"Partnership","data":"Drone data","date":"25 Sep 2026","summary":"The UK became the first international partner to access Ukraine's Avengers AI Labs database of drone imagery and video, and the UK Ministry of Defence opened a competition giving up to 12 UK companies access to train AI models for drone swarms.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-09-01-3","source":{"label":"Robotics & Automation News","url":"https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2026/09/14/kinetic-blocks-launches-marketplace-for-humanoid-robot-training-data/104794/","date":"2026-09-14"},"cells":{"buyer":"Kinetic Blocks marketplace buyers (humanoid model developers)","seller":"data suppliers listing on Kinetic Blocks","kind":"Marketplace","data":"Mixed","date":"1 Sep 2026","summary":"Oslo startup Kinetic Blocks opened a gated beta of a two-sided marketplace where suppliers list humanoid robot training data with commercial licence terms and approved buyers training humanoid models purchase and download it; sellers set prices and the platform takes a margin.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-08-18-4","source":{"label":"The Investor (The Korea Herald)","url":"https://m.theinvestor.co.kr/article/10844379","date":"2026-08-18"},"cells":{"buyer":"LG Electronics","seller":"NVIDIA (technology partner: data augmentation and synthetic data tools; LG robots collect the data in-house)","kind":"Partnership","data":"Mixed","date":"18 Aug 2026","summary":"LG Electronics said it expects to collect 100,000 hours of humanoid robot training data with its CLOiD robots at its Yangjae data factory in Seoul by the end of 2026, with the data processed through NVIDIA's data augmentation and synthetic data tools under the companies' expanded physical AI partnership.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-08-10-5","source":{"label":"Ministry of Defence of Ukraine","url":"https://mod.gov.ua/en/news/ukrainian-defense-companies-to-train-their-own-ai-models-on-the-avengers-labs-platform","date":"2026-08-10"},"cells":{"buyer":"Ukrainian defense companies","seller":"Ukraine Ministry of Defence (Avengers Labs)","kind":"Licence","data":"Drone data","date":"10 Aug 2026","summary":"Ukraine's Ministry of Defence opened Avengers Labs, a platform built on 5 million annotated battlefield frames mostly from the DELTA combat system, to Ukrainian defense companies for training their own AI models for unmanned systems; the first companies signed licensing agreements with the ministry. Defence Minister Fedorov had announced in March 2026 that battlefield data would be opened to allies for drone AI training.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-08-01-6","source":{"label":"The Star (South China Morning Post report)","url":"https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2026/10/15/china-robot-trainers-fold-clothes-wash-dishes-200-times-a-day-for-up-to-us900-a-month","date":"2026-10-15"},"cells":{"buyer":"Physen AI","seller":"A sanitation company (street cleaners)","kind":"Partnership","data":"Mixed","date":"1 Aug 2026","summary":"Shenzhen-based Physen AI partnered with a sanitation company to fit street cleaners with data-collection devices, capturing their movements as they swept roads to help train robots for real-world environments.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-07-26-7","source":{"label":"TechCrunch","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/26/are-brain-waves-the-next-unlock-for-physical-ai/","date":"2026-07-26"},"cells":{"buyer":"Encord","seller":"Zander Labs","kind":"Partnership","data":"Mixed","date":"26 Jul 2026","summary":"Encord is running a trial with German neuroscience startup Zander Labs, recording brain activity with EEG headsets while its in-house 'pilots' perform manual tasks, to build a brain wave tagged robotics dataset for customers.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-06-30-8","source":{"label":"Apptronik","url":"https://apptronik.com/news-collection/welcome-to-robot-park-where-apptroniks-apollo-goes-to-work","date":"2026-06-30"},"cells":{"buyer":"Google DeepMind","seller":"Apptronik","kind":"Partnership","data":"Teleoperation","date":"30 Jun 2026","summary":"Apptronik opened its expanded Robot Park data collection facility in Austin, where Apollo 2 humanoids generate training data through teleoperation and autonomous runs; under its research partnership the data feeds Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics models.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-06-25-9","source":{"label":"Humanoids Daily","url":"https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/bitrobot-and-hugging-face-drop-hiw-500-a-massive-10tb-real-home-humanoid-dataset","date":"2026-06-25"},"cells":{"buyer":"BitRobot Network","seller":"human teleoperators in 12 homes in Southeast Asia","kind":"Dataset release","data":"Teleoperation","date":"25 Jun 2026","summary":"BitRobot Network, with Hugging Face and Unitree Robotics, released HIW-500, a humanoid teleoperation dataset of more than 500 hours and 23,000 episodes recorded on Unitree G1 robots in 12 real homes in Southeast Asia.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-06-17-10","source":{"label":"TechCrunch","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/collecting-robot-training-data-is-dirty-unglamorous-work-some-ai-labs-are-already-paying-xdof-to-do-it/","date":"2026-06-17"},"cells":{"buyer":"unnamed frontier AI labs and robotics companies (about 20 customers)","seller":"XDOF","kind":"Contract","data":"Teleoperation","date":"17 Jun 2026","summary":"Robot data startup XDOF launched with 70 million dollars in funding and said it already sells teleoperation and egocentric training data to about 20 customers, including several frontier AI labs it cannot name.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-06-16-11","source":{"label":"DefenseScoop","url":"https://defensescoop.com/2026/06/16/data-from-half-a-million-hours-of-ukraine-conflict-drone-footage-now-available-to-train-ai/","date":"2026-06-16"},"cells":{"buyer":"Enabled Intelligence","seller":"Undisclosed sources of Ukraine war drone footage","kind":"Marketplace","data":"Drone data","date":"16 Jun 2026","summary":"US data-labeling firm Enabled Intelligence added more than half a million hours of labeled Ukraine conflict drone footage to its EView training-data library, available to approved users in the US, Ukraine and NATO countries; it did not disclose where the footage came from or who its customers are.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-06-16-12","href":"/platforms/instawork","source":{"label":"Newslaundry (The News Minute)","url":"https://www.newslaundry.com/2026/06/16/bengaluru-market-vendors-hired-to-train-ai-robots-that-could-replace-them","date":"2026-06-16"},"cells":{"buyer":"Instawork","seller":"Market vendors in Bengaluru","kind":"Paid program","data":"Egocentric video","date":"16 Jun 2026","summary":"Instawork paid vendors in Bengaluru's New Thippasandra market to wear head-mounted phone cameras while they worked, generating egocentric footage for robot training; the hourly rate fell from Rs 300 to about Rs 200 within days.","amount":"Rs 300 per hour at first, later about Rs 200 per hour"}},{"key":"2026-06-11-13","href":"/platforms/objectways","source":{"label":"eNCA (AFP)","url":"https://www.enca.com/lifestyle/indian-workers-training-ai-robots-take-their-jobs","date":"2026-06-11"},"cells":{"buyer":"Objectways","seller":"Household and factory workers in India","kind":"Paid program","data":"Egocentric video","date":"11 Jun 2026","summary":"Data company Objectways pays Indian workers to film first-person video of housework and factory tasks through its app and supplied head cameras; a Chennai recorder said she earns 250 rupees an hour.","amount":"250 rupees an hour"}},{"key":"2026-05-28-14","source":{"label":"The AI Insider","url":"https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/05/28/niantic-spatial-and-spexi-partner-to-turn-drone-imagery-into-intelligence-for-physical-ai/","date":"2026-05-28"},"cells":{"buyer":"Niantic Spatial","seller":"Spexi Geospatial (network of drone pilots)","kind":"Partnership","data":"Drone data","date":"28 May 2026","summary":"Niantic Spatial and Spexi partnered so that Spexi, which runs a network of more than 10,000 drone pilots, became a preferred drone imagery provider for training Niantic Spatial's real-world foundation models for physical AI.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-05-26-15","source":{"label":"TechCrunch","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/human-archive-taps-into-indias-services-startups-to-collect-data-for-physical-ai/","date":"2026-05-26"},"cells":{"buyer":"Human Archive","seller":"Home services, hotel and restaurant workers in India","kind":"Paid program","data":"Egocentric video","date":"26 May 2026","summary":"Y Combinator backed Human Archive partners with Indian home services, hotel and restaurant companies to have workers wear camera caps that capture egocentric video for robot training, paying workers a base hourly rate.","amount":"$1 per hour base rate"}},{"key":"2026-05-15-16","source":{"label":"Yicai Global","url":"https://www2.yicaiglobal.com/news/chinese-firms-are-hiring-unskilled-embodied-ai-data-collectors-to-train-robots","date":"2026-05-15"},"cells":{"buyer":"Longyu Big Data","seller":"Home-based data collectors in China","kind":"Paid program","data":"Demonstrations","date":"15 May 2026","summary":"Chinese data firm Longyu Big Data hires home-based collectors, many of them stay-at-home mothers, to record task demonstrations with gripper devices for embodied AI clients, at a stated monthly salary.","amount":"CNY3,000 to CNY4,000 a month (home-based collectors)"}},{"key":"2026-05-05-17","source":{"label":"Ai2","url":"https://allenai.org/blog/molmoact2","date":"2026-05-05"},"cells":{"buyer":"Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)","seller":"Ai2 in-house, curated with support from Cortex AI","kind":"Dataset release","data":"Demonstrations","date":"5 May 2026","summary":"Ai2 released MolmoAct 2 with the MolmoAct 2-Bimanual YAM dataset, which it describes as the largest open-source bimanual tabletop manipulation dataset, with over 720 hours of two-arm robot demonstrations such as towel folding and grocery scanning; Ai2 says it curated the dataset with support from data company Cortex AI.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-04-13-18","source":{"label":"Automotive World","url":"https://www.automotiveworld.com/news/natix-to-supply-multi-camera-data-for-autowares-e2e-model/","date":"2026-04-13"},"cells":{"buyer":"Autoware Foundation","seller":"NATIX Network","kind":"Partnership","data":"AV driving data","date":"13 Apr 2026","summary":"NATIX Network joined the Autoware Foundation as a Premium Member to supply multi-camera driving data for the foundation's first open-source end-to-end autonomous driving model. NATIX says its dataset spans more than 250 million kilometres from over 270,000 drivers.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-04-01-19","href":"/platforms/micro1","source":{"label":"MIT Technology Review","url":"https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/01/1134863/humanoid-data-training-gig-economy-2026-breakthrough-technology/","date":"2026-04-01"},"cells":{"buyer":"Micro1","seller":"Contract data recorders in more than 50 countries","kind":"Paid program","data":"Egocentric video","date":"1 Apr 2026","summary":"Palo Alto data company Micro1 pays thousands of contract workers in India, Nigeria, Argentina and other countries to film household chores, and sells the footage to robotics companies; a recorder in Nigeria told MIT Technology Review he is paid $15 an hour.","amount":"$15 an hour (one recorder in Nigeria)"}},{"key":"2026-03-19-20","source":{"label":"TechCrunch","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/doordash-launches-a-new-tasks-app-that-pays-couriers-to-submit-videos-to-train-ai/","date":"2026-03-19"},"cells":{"buyer":"DoorDash","seller":"DoorDash couriers (Dashers)","kind":"Paid program","data":"Mixed","date":"19 Mar 2026","summary":"DoorDash launched a stand-alone Tasks app that pays couriers in select US markets to film everyday tasks and record speech for AI and robotics systems, with pay shown upfront per task.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-03-12-21","href":"/platforms/instawork","source":{"label":"Los Angeles Times","url":"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-03-12/why-people-in-la-are-strapping-cameras-on-their-bodies-to-do-chores","date":"2026-03-12"},"cells":{"buyer":"Instawork","seller":"Los Angeles gig workers","kind":"Paid program","data":"Egocentric video","date":"12 Mar 2026","summary":"Staffing marketplace Instawork handed out headband phone mounts to Los Angeles residents and paid them to film themselves doing chores as robot training data; one worker was paid $80 for two hours of footage.","amount":"$80 for two hours of footage"}},{"key":"2026-03-11-22","source":{"label":"EqualOcean","url":"https://equalocean.com/analysis/2026031121786","date":"2026-03-11"},"cells":{"buyer":"Google DeepMind, Figure, AgiBot, ByteDance, Geely and BYD (named Lightwheel users)","seller":"Lightwheel","kind":"Partnership","data":"Simulation","date":"11 Mar 2026","summary":"Simulation data company Lightwheel supplies simulation assets and synthetic datasets for robot training; an NVIDIA case study names Google DeepMind, Figure, AgiBot, ByteDance, Geely and BYD as partners that use them, and EqualOcean reported in March 2026 that Lightwheel had completed RMB 1 billion in combined financing.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-03-01-23","source":{"label":"Scroll.in","url":"https://scroll.in/article/1092960/how-big-tech-is-harnessing-the-data-of-indian-factory-workers-to-train-robots","date":"2026-05-20"},"cells":{"buyer":"Build AI","seller":"Egolab.AI","kind":"Data acquisition","data":"Egocentric video","date":"1 Mar 2026","summary":"Build AI, a US egocentric data company, acquired Egolab.AI, an Indian startup that collects first-person footage from factory workers with head-mounted cameras for robotics companies.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-02-12-24","source":{"label":"PR Newswire (Robo.ai)","url":"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/roboai-subsidiary-secures-initial-order-for-embodied-ai-robot-data-collection-302685960.html","date":"2026-02-12"},"cells":{"buyer":"DaBoss.AI","seller":"Robo.ai (subsidiary, Embodied AI data joint venture in Dubai)","kind":"Contract","data":"Mixed","date":"12 Feb 2026","summary":"Nasdaq-listed Robo.ai said its subsidiary won its first commercial embodied AI data order: 30,000 hours of robot training data (RGB-D vision, 6-DoF motion trajectories, force and tactile feedback) for Silicon Valley data provider DaBoss.AI over 12 months. DaBoss is also Robo.ai's joint venture partner; no price was disclosed.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-02-06-25","href":"/platforms/claru","source":{"label":"Claru (job posting)","url":"https://claru.ai/jobs/wearable-camera-data-contributor","date":"2026-02-06"},"cells":{"buyer":"Claru","seller":"Remote wearable camera contributors (US)","kind":"Paid program","data":"Egocentric video","date":"6 Feb 2026","summary":"Robotics data company Claru posted a remote US role paying contributors per accepted recording hour to capture egocentric video for computer vision and robotics research.","amount":"$35 to $40 per hour (per accepted recording hour)"}},{"key":"2026-01-28-26","source":{"label":"Business Insider Japan (translation of a Business Insider report)","url":"https://www.businessinsider.jp/article/open-ai-robotics-lab-humanoid-robots-2026-1/","date":"2026-01-28"},"cells":{"buyer":"OpenAI","seller":"about 100 contract data collectors hired through a contracting agency","kind":"Contract","data":"Teleoperation","date":"28 Jan 2026","summary":"Business Insider reported, citing insiders, that OpenAI runs a robotics lab in San Francisco where about 100 contract workers on round-the-clock shifts teleoperate Franka robot arms with 3D-printed GELLO controllers to collect household-task training data, and that its contracting agency posted a robotics operator role for a second lab in Richmond, California.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-01-27-27","source":{"label":"TechCrunch","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/uber-launches-an-av-labs-division-to-gather-driving-data-for-robotaxi-partners/","date":"2026-01-27"},"cells":{"buyer":"Uber AV partners (Waymo, Waabi, Lucid Motors and others)","seller":"Uber (AV Labs)","kind":"Partnership","data":"AV driving data","date":"27 Jan 2026","summary":"Uber launched an AV Labs division that sends its own sensor-equipped cars into cities to collect driving data for its autonomous vehicle partners, such as Waymo, Waabi and Lucid Motors. At launch TechCrunch reported that no partner contracts had been signed yet; by June 2026 Uber said it would put 500 data-collection Hyundai Ioniq 5s on the road that year.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-01-23-28","source":{"label":"Automotive World","url":"https://www.automotiveworld.com/news/natix-teams-with-valeo-for-multi-camera-ai-model/","date":"2026-01-23"},"cells":{"buyer":"Valeo","seller":"NATIX Network","kind":"Partnership","data":"AV driving data","date":"23 Jan 2026","summary":"NATIX Network and Valeo partnered to build an open-source multi-camera world foundation model for autonomous driving, with the first version trained on 5,000 hours of multi-camera driving data collected through NATIX's VX360 network in the US, Europe and Asia.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-01-21-29","source":{"label":"Ministry of Defence of Ukraine","url":"https://mod.gov.ua/en/news/ministry-of-defence-launches-brave1-dataroom-a-secure-environment-for-training-military-ai-solutions","date":"2026-01-21"},"cells":{"buyer":"Ukrainian defense developers","seller":"Ukraine Ministry of Defence (with Palantir)","kind":"Dataset release","data":"Drone data","date":"21 Jan 2026","summary":"Ukraine's Ministry of Defence, with the Ministry of Digital Transformation, the Armed Forces, a military intelligence research institute and Palantir, launched Brave1 Dataroom, a secure environment where vetted Ukrainian defense developers train AI on structured visual and thermal datasets of aerial targets, starting with drone interception. By June 2026 the ministry said more than 100 companies had access.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-01-14-30","source":{"label":"NEURA Robotics","url":"https://neura-robotics.com/neura-robotics-bosch-partnership/","date":"2026-01-14"},"cells":{"buyer":"NEURA Robotics","seller":"Bosch (Robert Bosch Robotics GmbH)","kind":"Partnership","data":"Demonstrations","date":"14 Jan 2026","summary":"NEURA Robotics and Bosch's robotics subsidiary agreed to jointly collect real-world work, movement and environmental data in Bosch facilities using sensor suits, as training data for humanoid robots.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-01-13-31","href":"/platforms/humanoid","source":{"label":"Humanoid","url":"https://thehumanoid.ai/humanoid-and-schaeffler-announce-strategic-technology-partnership/","date":"2026-01-13"},"cells":{"buyer":"Humanoid","seller":"Schaeffler","kind":"Partnership","data":"Teleoperation","date":"13 Jan 2026","summary":"UK robotics company Humanoid and Schaeffler signed a strategic technology partnership that, beyond robot deployments and actuator supply, covers joint collection of robot training data through teleoperation and synthetic data generation.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-01-05-32","source":{"label":"NVIDIA Newsroom","url":"https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/alpamayo-autonomous-vehicle-development","date":"2026-01-05"},"cells":{"buyer":"NVIDIA","seller":"NVIDIA (planned data-collection drives)","kind":"Dataset release","data":"AV driving data","date":"5 Jan 2026","summary":"At CES 2026 NVIDIA presented its Physical AI Open Datasets for autonomous vehicles, more than 1,700 hours of driving data on Hugging Face, alongside the Alpamayo reasoning model family. The dataset card says the 1,700 hours were recorded on planned data-collection drives in 25 countries and 2,500+ cities, licensed for AV development.","amount":"Not disclosed"}},{"key":"2026-01-03-33","source":{"label":"IT之家 (IT Home)","url":"https://www.ithome.com/0/910/064.htm","date":"2026-01-03"},"cells":{"buyer":"undisclosed buyer on the Jiangsu Data Exchange","seller":"Jiangsu Zhujing Intelligent Technology (江苏箸境智能科技有限公司)","kind":"Marketplace","data":"Mixed","date":"3 Jan 2026","summary":"The Jiangsu Data Exchange said it completed what it called China's first on-exchange sale of an embodied AI dataset: about 25,000 structured clips of robot video with joint angle, current and torque data across office, supermarket, catering and housekeeping scenes, supplied by Jiangsu Zhujing Intelligent Technology. 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