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Humans are paid to mimic robots folding clothes

development2026-01-08

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Chinese local governments funded forty centres where human cyber-laborers mimic robots folding clothes to generate ground-truth training data.

Reported metric: 40 centres

Reporting date: 2026-01-08 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 8, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

The inversion is complete: humans performing robot motions so robots can learn to perform human ones.

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Welcome to January 8, 2026

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Government of China

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Expert annotators earn $90 an hour to feed the loop

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Humans are paid to mimic robots folding clothes
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-01-08
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-08-cyber-laborers-mimic-robots
Claim: Chinese local governments funded forty centres where human cyber-laborers mimic robots folding clothes to generate ground-truth training data.
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- Welcome to January 8, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-8-2026
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