Behind robotaxis are thousands of humans helping the AI drive better

Robotaxis are trained on data that have been annotated and labeled by humans around the world.

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• Robotaxis rely on large amounts of real-world and simulated data to improve their driving.
• Behind the scenes, human workers help to clean up and label the training data.
• Insiders estimate that the AV-support workforce is less than a couple of thousand people.

If robots take over the world, we'll remember the humans who helped them get there.