Miso Launches Miso Motion to Film Skilled Workers for Robots

How participation works

Participants wear a cap-mounted camera that Miso lends free of charge and film their normal work. The camera follows the wearer's line of sight and records hand movements and tool use. Target fields include cooking, bartending, beauty, carpentry, alterations, and riding and horse care. Individuals and businesses can take part, and both are paid for the footage.

Sign-up does not guarantee a project. Miso invites people when their registered field and work environment match the requirements of a specific data project. Participants then review the filming conditions and compensation terms in advance and decide whether to join. What is filmed, and how much, depends on the project requesting the data.

Why Miso

Miso has run for about ten years as a platform connecting customers with professionals for house and move-out cleaning, air-conditioner cleaning and interior work. According to the company, more than 100,000 partners have worked with it and cumulative orders exceed 10 million. Miso says its experience recruiting workers nationwide and managing service quality carries over to data collection, where worker diversity and footage quality are central.

Similar collection is already common abroad, where startups buy head-camera footage of household and factory tasks as humanoid robot development accelerates. Critics point to low pay and to workers effectively teaching robots that may replace them. Letting participants check terms beforehand appears aimed at those concerns.

"We will respect the choices and rights of people with field experience and expertise, and make sure their know-how leads to technological progress," said Victor Ching, Miso's CEO. The company plans to widen the industries and regions covered to gather work data from sites in Korea and abroad.