20 mn robot hours: Inside Instawork’s expanding India mandate for physical AI
For all the talk around humanoids and robots entering warehouses, factories and homes, one of the more immediate problems in physical AI lies behind the machines. There is not enough diverse real-world data to train them.
Instawork expects to facilitate about 20 million hours of robotics-related work across its ecosystem in 2026, according to Vaibhav Pandey, Country Head and Senior Director, Product, Instawork. Yet Pandey says that would amount to less than 0.04% of the data the company estimates will eventually be required.
The scale of that gap is also beginning to influence the mandate of Instawork’s India operation. The company entered India nine years ago as an engineering and product design talent hub. It has since expanded its India workforce to about 6,000, with the country accounting for roughly half of its global workforce, he said. The India entity is now also involved in work around physical AI, including...
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