Memories.ai pays people up to $18 per video to film chores for training robots

Nov 12, 2026
Contributors wear a small LUCI Pin camera while cooking, folding laundry or fixing a bike; the startup says it collected over one million hours of video in its first beta month.

California startup Memories.ai is paying people to film themselves doing everyday tasks so the footage can be used to train robots, Robot24 reported. Its Memories Upload platform lists example payments of $4.50 for folding laundry, $6 for chopping vegetables, $15 for making dinner and $18 for repairing a bicycle.

Contributors record with the company's LUCI Pin, a wearable camera of under 45 grams worn on the wrist, chest or head. They are paid only if their clips are accepted after the company removes idle time, poor footage and anything unrelated to the task. Memories.ai then uses models to detect and label human actions so robot developers can search for specific movements.

The company says it collected more than one million hours of first-person video in its first month of beta testing and plans to pass 10 million hours by March 2027. Those numbers have not been independently verified.

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