{"id":98060,"title":"Sureform: Turning physical expertise into training data for world models and robotics","tagline":"Building the platform to acquire task-specific robotics data at scale","body":"Sureform connects workplaces like hotels, warehouses, and restaurants with robotics labs to collect task-specific training data for world models and robot foundation models.\n\n**Problem**\n\nTo create a future where robots can reliably perform specialized tasks, like restocking inventory in a pharmacy or repairing downed power lines, robotics teams need massive amounts of task-specific human and robot data. Data that’s crafted in simulation or in controlled environments doesn’t reflect the natural variation and complexity of the world, and as a result, we need significantly more real-world action data across each of the millions of highly-specialized physical tasks that need to be automated.\n\n**Solution**\n\nTo solve this problem, Sureform’s platform enable robotics teams to get task-specific data from workplaces like hotels, construction sites, laundromats, and warehouses, where employees are equipped with head-mounted RGB cameras, stereo depth rigs, and handheld grippers that capture time-synced video, audio, pose, depth, and tactile data as they work. Every session of data captured through our platform is structured, synchronized, and delivered training-ready.\n\n\u003chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNt7ev_ClxM\u003e\n\n\\\n**Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re working on robot foundation models or world models (or know anyone who is), reach out to [ananth@sureformhq.com](mailto:ananth@sureformhq.com) or schedule a meeting here:[ https://calendly.com/sureform-us/30min](https://calendly.com/sureform-us/30min)\n\nAnd if you own or work at a business that’s interested in growing revenue through data collection and, later down the line, automating physical ops with robots, reach out as well!","slug":"PVc-sureform-turning-physical-expertise-into-training-data-for-world-models-and-robotics","created_at":"2026-02-23T20:01:00.542Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T03:15:04.328Z","total_vote_count":8,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PVc-sureform-turning-physical-expertise-into-training-data-for-world-models-and-robotics","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":30561,"name":"Sureform","slug":"sureform","url":"https://www.sureformhq.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aa0aa8a269ab91daa7f1007cbe3b7c767e28dc44.png","batch":"Spring 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Marketplace","Robotics","Data Labeling"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30561"}}