Mecca CEO Says Robotics Industry Has Reached Millions of Hours of Training Data
Mecca.ai CEO Josh Gao shared that the robotics industry has entered a phase where millions of hours of training data have been collected, marking a major step up from datasets like Ego4D which only had 4,000 hours two years prior.
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“I think we finally entered a world where we are in millions of hours of data.”
Josh Gao
“And coming from the world where Ego4D of 4,000 hours two years ago, where we were then, is a huge step up.”
Josh Gao
Heard on Training Data — “Inside the Robot Data Factory: Mecka's Josh Gao on Sensorizing Humans to Train Robots”, published Tuesday, October 20, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.