The team went through 183 recorded demonstrations of the block-picking task. Human reviewers threw out 91, almost half. In some, the robot sat idle for long stretches. In others, the operator picked up a block of the wrong color, or someone’s hand drifted into the camera’s view. The engineers also built an AI reviewer to do the screening automatically. It flagged 72, or 39.3%, close enough to work as a first filter, they said, though it had trouble telling blue blocks from purple ones.
Read as an HR document, that is a job description. Someone has to perform a task cleanly and consistently for a camera, and someone else has to check the footage. Neither role fits neatly into a retail org chart today. Both will need standards, training and a pay rate.
HRD has reported that when staff are filmed to train robots, , and agree in writing who owns the footage, whether people are paid for it and whether it can be used in performance reviews.
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