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The Globe and Mail, Startups are hiring low-paid gig workers to train robots on manual labour (9 Oct 2026)

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Record	Kind	As stated	Dated
First-person household-task video recorded by a gig worker in one week through the Atlas Capture app (Mecka AI), paid in a US-dollar stablecoin	Price observation	US$50 for 17 hours of video	9 Oct 2026
First-person household-chore video recorded on a smartphone through the Human Motion Data Recorder app (contributors largely in the Philippines), per approved hour	Price observation	US$3 for an hour of approved footage	9 Oct 2026
Launched in April 2026 to fill one robotics company's need for 50,000 hours of egocentric video, the app had collected 38,000 hours from 3,900 contributors by mid-summer 2026, paying US$3 per approved hour.	Supply fact	38,000 hours from 3,900 contributors	9 Oct 2026

First-person household-task video recorded by a gig worker in one week through the Atlas Capture app (Mecka AI), paid in a US-dollar stablecoin
Kind
Price observation
As stated
US$50 for 17 hours of video
Dated
9 Oct 2026
First-person household-chore video recorded on a smartphone through the Human Motion Data Recorder app (contributors largely in the Philippines), per approved hour
Kind
Price observation
As stated
US$3 for an hour of approved footage
Dated
9 Oct 2026
Launched in April 2026 to fill one robotics company's need for 50,000 hours of egocentric video, the app had collected 38,000 hours from 3,900 contributors by mid-summer 2026, paying US$3 per approved hour.
Kind
Supply fact
As stated
38,000 hours from 3,900 contributors
Dated
9 Oct 2026

Figures it feeds

$2.97 per hour of videoVideo and footage, paid to the people who make it, per hour of video

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