Artificial Intelligence

Asimov

Asimov pays people to record their ordinary routines, and turns that footage into the human movement data humanoid robots are trained on.

About Asimov

Asimov collects the data humanoid robots learn from. Robotics labs need enormous amounts of footage of people doing ordinary physical work, and there is no archive of it, because nobody was filming themselves loading a dishwasher from their own point of view.

So Asimov pays households and businesses to record it. Contributors wear hardware and go about their day in kitchens, restaurants, hotels and factories, and what comes back is organic footage of real tasks rather than staged demonstrations in a lab.

The company was founded by Anshul Verma and Lyem Ningthou and went through Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch. It is based in Berkeley, California.

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Team size: Small (1 to 49 staff)
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Frequently asked questions

What does Asimov do?

It gathers human movement data for training humanoid robots. Households and businesses are paid to record their normal routines, and the footage becomes training data for robotics labs.

Why does that data have to be collected rather than found?

Because it does not exist. Robots have to learn physical tasks from the point of view of somebody doing them, and almost nobody has ever filmed themselves doing the washing up from their own eye line.

Where is Asimov based?

Berkeley, California, in the United States. It is part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.