Objectways

Data vendor, HQ United States, founded 2018. Karur, Tamil Nadu labeler that films workers folding towels and doing chores with head cameras, and annotates humanoid robot videos for US clients. Sells egocentric, teleoperation, depth and UMI gripper datasets.

Data it collects

Workers in

India

Scale

• More than 2,000 employees, about half labeling sensor data from autonomous cars and robotics (2025-11-02)
• 2,200+ employees worldwide, plans to reach 3,000+ (2026-10-05)
• 500M+ AI data labels, 100+ customers (2026-10-05)

Pay

• AFP (June 2026): a homemaker recording housework video for Objectways said she is paid 250 rupees (about US$3) an hour.
• $2.84 to $3.98/h Objectways egocentric video recorders indianexpress.com ↗ Major outlet

Events

• 2026-06-17 AFP: Indian workers paid 250 rupees an hour for chore video khaleejtimes.com ↗ Major outlet
• 2025-11-02 LA Times: Objectways sends towel-folding videos to US client latimes.com ↗ Major outlet

Sources

• about half of them label sensor data from autonomous cars and roboticsyahoo.com ↗ Secondary 2025-11-02
• Who else will give you 250 rupees (RM10.60) an hour just for doing housework?thestar.com.my ↗ Secondary 2026-06-11
• Human-guided robot manipulation demonstrations at scaleobjectways.com ↗ Company claim 2026-10-05
• First-person perspective datasets for embodied AI agentsobjectways.com ↗ Company claim 2026-10-05
• 2,200+ trained annotators and AI specialistsobjectways.com ↗ Company claim 2026-10-05

Every row links to its source, and hovering a link shows the quote it rests on. Research compiled 2026-10-05. Method