Skill
you own.
SkillCap is a camera built into a work cap. Cooks, folders and mechanics wear it on a normal shift. Their hands become training data for robots, and they are paid for every hour that passes review.
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Inside SkillCap
| Sites | Chinese kitchens | Banh mi shops | Laundromats | Auto shops |
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SkillCap parts
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- Camera
- Our wide-angle camera module
- Points down at the hands
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- Compute
- KC-1, our own board
- Encodes on the chip, streams to the shop box
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- Motion
- Head IMU, on the board
- On the same clock as the video
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- Shop box
- Edge computer with an AI chip
- Blurs faces before saving
Faces stay in the shop.
The cap streams to a box in the back room. It blurs faces and screens, drops the audio, then saves. Nothing leaves the shop until it is clean.
A shift, cut into skills.
Each session is split into tasks in the order they happened, so a robot learns the whole flow of real work, not one staged move.
- Wash and trim bok choyChop scallion, finePortion pork for char siu
- Wok toss, high heatPlate and wipe downLadle soup into bowls
- Scrub the wokWrap and label leftoversWipe the steel counters
No audio
Delete on request
This is what a robot learns from.
Hands, tools and food, from the worker’s own view, every step labelled. Sample labels shown.
View from SkillCap
Ready for robot labs.
| Session | Site | Task | Clean |
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| example-01 | Kitchen | Chop scallion | Yes |
| example-02 | Kitchen | Wok toss | Yes |
| example-03 | Banh mi | Split baguette | Yes |
| example-04 | Laundry | Fold towel | Review |
Raw
1080p video and head motion on one clock, with a JSON record per session.
Cleaned
Faces blurred, lens calibrated, cut by task and scored for quality.
Labeled
Task steps, hand keypoints and object masks, as a LeRobot dataset.
Where SkillCap works
Learns knife, wok and steamer work from Chinatown kitchens.
Learns fast bread and filling work from banh mi shops.
Learns folding at real speed from wash-and-fold laundromats.
Every robot needs a shifu.
The robots coming into kitchens and laundromats will learn from people. Firsthand makes sure those people are asked first, paid fairly and credited.
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