Real-world human movement data for humanoid robots
Hi YC! 👋
We're Anshul and Lyem, co-founders of Asimov. We're building the data infrastructure to enable the GPT-3 moment for humanoid robots.
TL;DR
Language models trained on trillions of words. Image models trained on billions of photos. Robots are starting from scratch. The bottleneck is diverse, real-world human movement data. We're building the infrastructure to collect and own it at scale.
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🚨 The Problem
Humanoid robots need to learn from human movement in diverse environments, but the data to teach them doesn't exist at scale. Existing datasets are narrow, captured largely in controlled factory settings, repeating the same tasks in the same environments. What's missing is diversity: thousands of different people, in thousands of different spaces, doing the full range of things humans actually do.
The market for robotics training data will dwarf what was spent on language model data, and right now nobody owns the supply chain.
🚀 Our Solution
Asimov empowers individuals worldwide to earn a living by recording what they already do: cooking, cleaning, working, living. That means data from thousands of different people, homes, and workplaces: the task and environment diversity that factory-only datasets simply can't replicate.
We've built the full stack to make it happen: proprietary hardware, annotation tooling, and a vertically integrated pipeline that makes our data higher quality and cheaper to produce than anything on the market. The largest robotics labs in the world are already our customers.
👨💻 The Team
Anshul brings deep data infrastructure expertise from Scale AI and Lyem built data pipelines for the United States Air Force. We’ve been building together since we were roommates in college, and previously co-founded a startup they grew to six figures in revenue.
🙏 Our Ask
1. If you're a robotics company looking for data, we'd love to talk. We're already supplying the largest players in the space and can deliver at scale starting today. Reach out at founders@tryasimov.ai.
2. If you own a restaurant, warehouse, or any business, anywhere in the world, and are interested in partnering, let us know. Many of our partners are able to entirely cover their workers' salaries by having them wear our collection kits while they work. Reach out at founders@tryasimov.ai.
3. No matter where you live, you can turn your daily routine into a living. Sign up at tryasimov.ai.
