Indexed from Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s October 12, 2026 edition. This is an attributed summary; linked-source claims have not been independently verified.
Development
Figure reportedly pays for recordings of human tasks
Claim
The newsletter reports that Figure pays participants about 94 cents per task to film themselves, collecting demonstrations for robot training.
Reported metric: 94 cents per task
Reporting date: (not necessarily the event date)
Sources
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- Welcome to October 12, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
- Source linked by the October 12 issue (www.ft.com)
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