That warehouse is occupied by Encord, a company that builds data tooling used to train AI models. Andrew Ceja is a pilot'the company's term for its robotic trainers'and he's carefully pulling wooden blocks from a tottering tower while wearing a headset with a camera that tracks what he sees. That alone is fairly common for collecting robot training data, but this headset includes sensors that measure his brain waves as he carefully disassembles the block tower. Encord is one of a small but growing number of startups betting that the next real constraint on humanoid and warehouse robotics won't be model architecture but instead the sheer scarcity of real-world physical training data. Rather than just helping robotics companies manage the data they have, Encord is building a business around manufacturing the data they don't. The brain wave headset Ceja is wearing was built by Zander Labs, a German neuroscience startup that's betting measuring brain activity ' to deduce mental states...
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