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Global: embodied AI training data, standards and rules
Global carries 7 records on the ledger as of September 2026: 4 verified at a primary source, 0 announced with no document yet, 0 searched and absent, and 3 open questions. Of those, 2 concern the supply of training hours, 2 a standard for the data, and 0 a rule on what may be done with it.
Data supply
2 records
The largest open supply of hours is human, not robot: Ego4D holds over 3,670 hours of first person video
Global · verified 13 September 2026
Ego4D site: over 3,670 hours of daily life activity video, 923 unique participants, 74 locations in 9 countries, released 17 February 2022.
Open X-Embodiment: over a million real robot trajectories from 22 embodiments, pooled from 60 datasets, under CC BY 4.0
Global · verified 13 September 2026
Project page: over one million real robot trajectories, 22 robot embodiments, 60 existing datasets from 34 robotic research labs.
Data standard
2 records
The published international standards on data quality for machine learning, the ISO/IEC 5259 series, are general and name no robot
Global · verified 13 September 2026
ISO catalog entry 81088: ISO/IEC 5259-1:2024, status published, publication date July 2024, edition 1, 19 pages, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42. The catalog's package listing bundles parts 1 to 5.
ISO is drafting a humanoid robot datasets standard, ISO/CD 26264-1, at committee draft stage
Global · verified 13 September 2026
ISO catalog entry 93011: status under development, stage 30.60 close of comment period, edition 1, technical committee ISO/TC 299.
Open question
3 records
Open question: does a person in a training ground's footage have a say? Three regimes, three different answers, none written for robots
Global · verified 13 September 2026
GDPR and the EDPB video guidelines: footage of an identifiable person is personal data; it is biometric only when processed to identify. Workers are owed a lawful basis and information, and consent is a weak basis at work.
Open question: who owns the hours a robot records at a customer's site? Only the EU has a rule, and it is about access, not ownership
Global · verified 13 September 2026
Data Act articles 4 and 5: the user may access readily available data and have it shared with a third party; article 6(2)(e) bars the third party from a competing product. The Regulation does not use the word ownership.
Open question: do synthetic hours count? NVIDIA generated the equivalent of 6,500 human hours in eleven, and no standard says what an hour is
Global · verified 13 September 2026
NVIDIA newsroom, 18 March 2025: 780,000 synthetic trajectories, the equivalent of 6,500 hours or nine continuous months of human demonstration data, in eleven hours; a 40 percent improvement over real data alone.
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Who is collecting robot training data in Global?
The largest open supply of hours is human, not robot: Ego4D holds over 3,670 hours of first person video; Open X-Embodiment: over a million real robot trajectories from 22 embodiments, pooled from 60 datasets, under CC BY 4.0. Each has its own record page with the figures its own publisher printed and the date they were true.
What rules decide what a robot maker may do with hours recorded in Global?
No access rule record for Global is on the ledger yet.
What has nobody settled in Global?
Open question: does a person in a training ground's footage have a say? Three regimes, three different answers, none written for robots; Open question: who owns the hours a robot records at a customer's site? Only the EU has a rule, and it is about access, not ownership; Open question: do synthetic hours count? NVIDIA generated the equivalent of 6,500 human hours in eleven, and no standard says what an hour is. The ledger poses these and does not answer them.
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