Robot Data Collection Services: Teleoperation & Egocentric Capture
Robot data collection services on real partner sites: managed teleoperation, egocentric and tactile demonstration capture, delivered LeRobot-ready. Multimodal by default — stereo depth, tactile, IMU and hand pose — with consent and provenance on every episode.
What Our Robot Data Collection Services Deliver
Managed, multimodal capture scoped to your task. We run the sites, the rigs and the QA, and hand you robot-ready episodes with the full sensor stack, not mono video.
Scoping and taxonomy
We turn your eval into a capture plan: sites, objects and action set — the task taxonomy the collection program runs against.
Rig configuration
Stereo depth, dual wrist, tactile and IMU, tuned to the task — the sensor stack a policy actually needs, not mono RGB.
Consent and onboarding
Signed consent and site agreements before any camera rolls — commercial-training-safe from the first episode.
Pilot sample pack
A representative delivery you evaluate before scaling — same modalities, calibration and format you get in production.
Scaled capture
Trained crews collect at volume across our partner network of 5,000+ sites others can't reach.
QA and delivery
Human verification and per-episode provenance, delivered LeRobot-ready — no conversion project before you train.
A Collection Hour Is Not a Usable Hour
A trained teleoperator produces 30-plus good demonstrations an hour, but an 8-hour shift yields only 2 to 3 usable hours after setup, calibration drift, failed takes, consent gaps and sync errors. The market benchmark for fully loaded teleoperation data is $118 to $200 per collected hour. We publish this math because it is where budgets quietly die. Three gaps between a collected hour and a usable one:
We scope the program, not a rate card.
The variables you control: modality count, how hard the environment is to access, task complexity, annotation density and turnaround. We scope against these and quote the program — 2 to 3 usable hours from an 8-hour shift is the honest yield the other vendors don't put on the page.
The Sensor Stack and How We Capture
Head stereo, dual wrist cameras, tactile gloves and IMUs, all sub-frame hardware-synced and 6-DoF calibrated — captured four ways across our partner network, delivered LeRobot-ready.
Head stereo depth
ZED X Mini, ZED 2i or RealSense D455 head stereo gives metric per-frame depth — real, scale-accurate trajectories a policy can learn from, not scale-ambiguous mono projections.
Dual wrist cameras
Left and right wrist views give the close-up perspective a robot actually sees at execution time — the manipulation context a single head feed can't capture.
PaXini tactile gloves
Per-finger tactile gloves record grasp force, slip and contact — the signal simulation can't fake and scraped video never sees.
IMU at 200Hz
IMUs at 200Hz on the head and both wrists, with per-finger IMU rings, preserve the fast motion that 30Hz video aliases away.
Synced, calibrated, LeRobot-ready
Everything is sub-frame hardware-synced and 6-DoF calibrated, delivered as ROS 2 / Foxglove MCAP and LeRobot datasets — no post-hoc guessing at timestamps.
Egocentric demonstrations
First-person capture of real work, hands and objects in view — the demonstration a robot learns to imitate.
Teleoperation
Operator-driven demonstrations for policy learning at scale, collected by trained crews across our partner network.
Tactile, contact-rich and custom
Force and contact capture, plus custom programmes built to your exact tasks and environments — captured to spec, not a generic corpus.
Have a Manipulation Task to Capture?
Send us the task and environment. We'll scope the capture and send a representative sample pack — the same modalities, calibration and delivery format you'd get in production, so your team can inspect sensor alignment before any commitment.
Book a Strategy Session →When You Need Custom Capture to Your Taxonomy, Not a Generic Corpus
Off-the-shelf robot corpora cover common pick-and-place well. But teams pushing real physical AI need capture that a scraped or synthetic dataset structurally can't deliver:
Send your task taxonomy and we scope a collection program against it — sites, objects, action set, episode counts and acceptance criteria — so the data you train on is your data, captured on real floors, not a generic corpus everyone else already has.
Frequently Asked Questions
The fully loaded market benchmark for teleoperation data is $118 to $200 per collected hour, and a collected hour is not a usable hour: an 8-hour shift yields 2 to 3. We scope and quote each program rather than posting a rate card.
It depends on site access, modality count and volume. We start with a pilot pack, then scale, and give you a timeline in scoping.
Stereo depth, dual wrist cameras, tactile force, and IMU at 200Hz on the head and both wrists, all sub-frame synced and calibrated.
Signed participant and site agreements before capture, permitting commercial training, with a per-episode chain of custody you can audit.
LeRobot-ready datasets, with RLDS/TFDS and ROS 2 / Foxglove MCAP on request. No conversion project before you can train.
Egocentric demonstrations, operator-driven teleoperation, tactile and contact-rich capture, and custom programmes built to your exact tasks and environments — all delivered LeRobot-ready.
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Learn more →AI Transformation Workshop
Half-day strategy workshop to map your manipulation tasks and scope the right collection program for your policy stack.
Book a workshop →AI Strategy Session
30-minute scoping call. We'll talk through your task, sites, modality count and delivery format, then scope a representative pilot sample pack.
Book a session →AI Consultant vs In-House Team
Honest tradeoffs on standing up field capture in-house versus engaging a partner for a scoped, delivered collection program.
Read the comparison →Scope Your Capture
A 30-minute strategy call. Send us the task and environment, and we'll design a collection program for your stack — then scope a representative sample pack so your team can inspect sensor alignment before scaling.