India’s Invisible Workforce: The Workers Who Don’t Know They’re Building Tomorrow’s Robots
Every time a housekeeper folds a bedsheet, a factory worker assembles a part, or a delivery agent sorts a package — that movement could be worth money to someone building a robot. Not to the worker. To the startup recording them. This is the new reality of physical AI, and it is unfolding quietly across India’s workplaces, hotels, restaurants, and homes. At the heart of this week’s controversy is Human Archive — a startup founded by four 20-year-old college dropouts that just raised $8.2 million to do one thing: collect…