Doing three loads of laundry on a Sunday morning isn't fun. But what if you could get paid for it? The startups that help train AI chatbots, such as Encord and Micro1, say they're seeing a surge in demand from robotics companies hungry for high-quality training data — and creating it often requires paying people to film themselves performing tasks like folding laundry, loading dishwashers, or making espresso. Robotics has become one of the hottest fields in AI, with prominent investors like