Human Archive
Human Archive is a Silicon Valley startup that pays gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices (including tactile gloves, motion capture suits, and wrist cameras) to capture real-world first-person video and multimodal sensor data. The company sells these high-quality physical training datasets to robotics and AI labs, having raised $8.2 million from investors including Wing Venture Capital, NVP Capital, and Y Combinator.
“winter '26 batch, part of the robotics/embodied data wave”
Source→“Human Archive raised $8.2M seed; Y Combinator W26; we had the number one most investor inbound interest on Y Combinator's demo day”
Source→“This headset captures stereo depth, it also has an IMU on the headset, and then we have two wrist cameras, we have a camera on the chest and we have two tactile gloves and then we have full upper and lower body motion capture”
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