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Yang Xinyi, born in 2004, leads a team of more than 50 people at a technology company in Wuhan, using PICO headsets and controllers to collect humanoid robot training data, teaching robots household skills such as picking up and putting down objects, tidying rooms, and making coffee. In June this year, in order to collect data from real home environments, the team planned to rent about 30 homes with signs of everyday life, using each for one week, and several real estate agents at one point suspected she was a scammer. Yang Xinyi said that robots still have a long way to go before they can adapt to the complex living environments of millions of households.
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Nov 1
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Post-00s woman from Zhejiang, Yang Xinyi, rents 30 apartments in Wuhan, leads a team of over 50 people teaching humanoid robots to do housework
Yang Xinyi, born in 2004, leads a team of more than 50 people at a tech company in Wuhan, collecting humanoid robot training data through PICO headsets and controllers, teaching robots household skills such as picking up and placing objects, tidying rooms, and making coffee. In June this year, to collect real home environment data, the team planned to rent about 30 apartments with signs of lived-in life, using each for one week; several real estate agents at one point suspected she was a scammer. She said robots still have a long way to go before they can adapt to the complex living environments of millions of households.