A named repair sequence
Opening, testing components, replacing a part and reassembling are different steps, so a spec names each one and the appliance it runs on.
Task family
Requirements
Opening, testing components, replacing a part and reassembling are different steps, so a spec names each one and the appliance it runs on.
The catalog row says appliance and no more, so the spec says which kinds of appliance, and which faults, your policy needs.
A head-mounted view or a multiview rig keeps the hands, the tool and the opened appliance in frame through the whole sequence.
Frame-accurate action segments mark where opening ends, where testing becomes replacement and where reassembly begins.
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Why it matters
Egocentric appliance repair data is real-world video of the physical hand work of repairing an appliance: taking it apart, testing its components, swapping the faulty part and putting it back together. It is recorded against a written spec, with the streams the site states for its custom collections.
The electronics and device repair page lists the Appliance repair row as one of several repair rows and gives it one paragraph. This page centres that single row and the neighbouring rows it is often confused with. It describes task video only, and it makes no brand, model, fault-diagnosis accuracy, electrical-safety or certification claim.
Catalog row
One row. "Appliance repair" sits in the Repair Shop environment, under the Repair Services sector. The catalog describes it as: open the appliance, test components, replace the faulty part and reassemble. It is rated Hard and listed as Available on request, so its timeline is quoted against your spec.
The row lists a head-mounted phone or a multiview rig as the capture mode. The environment examples include an appliance workshop alongside electronics repair, a bicycle shop, shoe repair, watch repair and furniture restoration. The catalog gives one line for the row, and the steps inside that line are set by your spec.
The difference
The Electronics repair row reads "Open the device, diagnose the fault, replace the screen, battery or board and test," and the Device Repair row covers phones, laptops, tablets and consumer electronics. The appliance row names testing components and reassembling instead, and it does not name a diagnosis step or a screen, battery or board. Watch repair, Bicycle repair, Shoe repair and Furniture restoration are separate rows in the same environment.
Trade rows are separate listings too. The On-Site Home Repair environment lists an HVAC service call, and the Trade Service Calls environment lists HVAC equipment installation. Neither is an appliance repair row. The site lists no catalog row for installing a household appliance, so ask for it in the spec if you need it.
Streams
Firsthand custom collections record ten hardware-synchronized streams aligned under 2 ms, with head and wrist RGB, depth, 3D hand pose with a per-joint visibility flag, contact and grasp events and frame-accurate action segments. The one language label the site states is a task instruction for each episode.
Standard capture is cameras, depth and IMU. A separate glove tier records a tactile signal, and the site does not state whether it applies to this row. Appliance types, tools, test equipment and whether force or tactile data are needed are therefore settled in the spec.
Privacy
Every episode links to a signed contributor release through a documented consent chain, and the consent record is part of the delivery. Faces, plates and screens are detected and irreversibly blurred at ingest, and a reviewer confirms the result before anything ships. Footage with bystanders who cannot be de-identified is discarded.
That is the whole of the privacy wording the site states. It does not state a rule for appliance owners, a customer home or data stored on a smart appliance, so this page makes no such claim. Raise it in the spec if it matters.
Fast · on demand
Where coverage is already deep, the first validated batch lands in a median of 48 hours from signed spec. Thin environments typically take three to four weeks, because vetting operators there is the bottleneck, and we quote that up front. The site does not state which of the two applies to this row.
You describe the appliances, faults and sequence your policy needs, and we turn that into a written spec covering tasks, environments, capture tier, annotation depth and accept criteria. A Spec Pilot, a small and fast first batch, can prove the spec before you scale. Billing is per validated hour, a reject log ships with every batch, and rejected items are recaptured at our cost.
At a glance
Every collection runs through the same seven-stage end-to-end custom collection pipeline. End-to-end custom data collection is a managed service that takes an AI data need from problem to owned dataset in a single accountable pipeline.
Catalog rows
| Catalog task | Environment and sector | Catalog description | Skill | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appliance repair | Repair Shop, Repair Services | Open the appliance, test components, replace the faulty part and reassemble | Hard | Available on request |
| Electronics repair (separate row, not appliance) | Repair Shop, Repair Services | Open the device, diagnose the fault, replace the screen, battery or board and test | Hard | Available on request |
| Device Repair (separate row, not appliance) | Electronics & Device Repair Shop | Diagnosing and repairing phones, laptops, tablets and consumer electronics | Hard | Active collection |
| Watch repair (separate row, not appliance) | Repair Shop, Repair Services | Open the case, replace the battery or movement parts under magnification and reseal | Hard | Available on request |
| Bicycle repair (separate row, not appliance) | Repair Shop, Repair Services | Adjust brakes and gears, replace tubes, chains and cables and true wheels | Medium | Available on request |
| HVAC service call (separate row, not appliance) | On-Site Home Repair | Inspect the HVAC unit, replace filters or parts, check refrigerant and test the system | Hard | Available on request |
Streams and tasks
| Stream or label | Status on this site | What it carries in a repair episode |
|---|---|---|
| Head and wrist RGB, depth | Stated; ten streams synced under 2 ms | Keeps the opened appliance, the tool and the hands on one timeline |
| 3D hand pose, per-joint visibility | Stated for custom collections | Carries how fingers lift a cover, ease out a part and seat a replacement |
| Contact and grasp events | Stated | Marks when hands meet a tool, a panel or a part |
| Action segments | Stated; frame-accurate | Separates opening, testing components, replacing the part and reassembling |
| Task instruction | Stated; one per episode | States the repair task in plain language |
| Object labels | Set by your spec | Names the parts and steps in the terms your policy uses |
What is not stated
| Item | Status on this site | Where it is settled |
|---|---|---|
| Appliance types, brands or models | Not stated; the catalog row says appliance only | The written spec |
| Fault types and which parts are replaced | Not stated | The written spec |
| Fault-diagnosis accuracy or repair-outcome labels | Not stated; the row ends with reassembling | Not claimed on this page |
| Electrical-safety or certification claims | Not stated | Not claimed on this page |
| Tools and test equipment | Not stated; the row names testing components only | The written spec |
| Whether the appliance is powered during capture | Not stated | The written spec |
| Shop names, regions, number of sites or technicians | Not stated beyond Western program markets | The written spec |
| Cycle times, throughput, repetition counts | Not stated | Quoted against your spec |
| Force or tactile data | Not stated for this row | The written spec, if needed |
| Robot or policy results | Not stated | Not claimed on this page |
Formats
| Format | What the official documentation states | Used for here |
|---|---|---|
| RLDS | A dataset is retrieved as episodes, and each episode holds a dataset of steps (RLDS repository README) | Episode-based training loaders |
| LeRobot | LeRobotDataset v3.0 is a standardized format for robot learning data, including multi-camera video, with many episodes stored per Parquet or MP4 file (LeRobot documentation) | LeRobot dataset format and tooling |
| WebDataset | Tar files in which files that belong together share a basename, split into numbered shards (WebDataset README) | Sharded streaming for large training runs |
| HDF5 and zarr | Stated by Firsthand only | Array storage for custom pipelines |
| Rerun .rrd | Stated by Firsthand only | Multi-stream synchronized playback for review |
FAQ
Sources
Tell us the appliances, faults and repair sequence your policy needs to handle. We will quote reach, timeline, and price against a written spec, with a first validated batch in a median of 48 hours where coverage is deep.