# A new class of gig-workers in India are teaching robots to do the dishes

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Podcast: [Daybreak](https://stenobird.com/podcast/daybreak-5886514)
Published: 2026-06-25T20:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/43c9d886
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Take the Daybreak listener survey here . Meet Ranjan. He works at Deloitte by day and spends his evenings strapping a camera to his forehead, recording himself doing household chores by evening. He's a physical AI trainer, a part of a growing gig economy built around creating training data to teach humanoid robots human behaviour. Reporter Sakshi Sadashiv joins host Rachel Varghese to break down how this supply chain works: from gig workers in Delhi, to the firms like Tesla and Nvidia that eventually buy their footage from the companies that vet, annotate and package it for sale. And why this feels like a pattern India has been in before. * Read Sakshi's original story here .

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