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🦾 🤖 Project CrowdBot
# Problem: Limited Access to High-Quality Training Data
1. State-of-the-art foundational robotics models today rely on large datasets of private teleoperation data, accessible only to well-funded organizations, creating a barrier to innovation.
2. The datasets available today are all static and made by universities using robots > $10,000. There is no high-quality dataset that *anyone* can contribute to who doesn't have a professional budget.
# Solution: Crowdsourcing an Open Robotics Dataset
Project CrowdBot seeks to democratize robotics by building a high-quality, open dataset for training state-of-the-art models. By enabling anyone to access and contribute data, CrowdBot fosters broader advancements in robotics.
# How YOU can Contribute
1. **Build** your own low-cost robot
2. **Collect** labeled teleoperation data, such as folding a size-M t-shirt
3. **Upload** your data to CrowdBot's Huggingface page via pull request
# How to use the dataset