Gasgoo Munich- Daimon Robotics recently partnered with China Mobile to launch the "Data Collection into Homes" network initiative. Leveraging China Mobile's hundreds of thousands of offline outlets, the two aim to build a nationwide outsourced data collection network.
The first joint innovation pilot base for outsourced data collection has been established in Chenzhou, Hunan, with regular operations scheduled to begin on July 15.
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Positioned as an "Embodied Data Collection 5S Store," the base integrates five core modules: Show, School (data collection training), Supply (equipment provisioning), Service (pre-sales and after-sales support), and Synergy (data-model-scenario collaboration). This approach aims to shift data infrastructure from closed-loop collection to mass-participation scalable supply.
The initial phase will deploy 1,000 sets of equipment. At full capacity, the project can generate 1 million hours of data annually, using standardized processes accessible to the public to rapidly accumulate highly scarce real-world operational data for the industry.
Acting as "Embodied Data Collection 5S Stores," these offline outlets will offer the public one-stop services for immediate access, training, and application. Equipped with devices such as two-finger grippers, five-finger gloves, and head-mounted cameras, the sites simulate operations across five core scenarios: home, logistics, manufacturing, showrooms, and retail. Residents can qualify as data collectors after just a short training session.
According to the plan, the "Data Collection into Homes" project will start in Hunan before gradually expanding nationwide. The ultimate vision is an outsourced data collection network anchored by offline outlets, using surrounding households as the smallest unit to cover all scenarios of daily life.
Incubated by a research team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Daimon Robotics is dedicated to building a tactile foundation for embodied intelligence, grounded in its globally pioneering monochromatic light visuo-tactile technology. With tactile perception as the core modality, Daimon has constructed a comprehensive capability ecosystem spanning the full "hardware-data-model" chain.
Specifically, Daimon's core products include the world's first multi-dimensional, high-resolution, high-frequency visuo-tactile sensor; a teleoperation data collection system with force and tactile feedback; a Vision-Tactile-Language-Action (VTLA) multimodal data collection software and hardware system; and corresponding operation models.
In April, Daimon joined forces with Google DeepMind and dozens of other leading global institutions to release Daimon-Infinity, the world's largest tactile-inclusive, multimodal physical world embodied dataset. Within its first month of open-sourcing on Alibaba's ModelScope community, it garnered over 1 million downloads and topped the list for physical world embodied datasets.
Plans call for Daimon-Infinity to expand to several million hours of data by the end of the year, comprising nearly 1 billion embodied data entries. Of this, 10,000 hours will be open for sharing across the industry. Currently, the first batch of 1,000 hours of real-world data is available on the Alibaba ModelScope community.
