Four named chores, not one generic label
The catalog row states floors (vacuum and mop), furniture (dust), glass (polish) and bins (empty). A spec names which of these one episode covers and where one ends and the next begins.
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Requirements
The catalog row states floors (vacuum and mop), furniture (dust), glass (polish) and bins (empty). A spec names which of these one episode covers and where one ends and the next begins.
Vacuuming, mopping, dusting and polishing all put the hands on a tool or a cloth. A head-mounted view keeps the hands, the tool and the surface being worked in view through each chore.
3D hand pose with a visibility flag per joint and frame-accurate action segments are aligned to video and depth on one hardware clock.
A lobby is a shared area, and the site does not state a guest-facing capture rule for it. Who may be in frame, and when, is agreed in the written spec on top of the general blur and discard rules.
Definition
Egocentric hotel lobby and common area cleaning data is first-person video of one hospitality task: vacuuming and mopping lobby floors, dusting furniture, polishing glass and emptying bins. It is recorded from the cleaner viewpoint, close to what a robot onboard camera would see while working a public area, with depth, 3D hand pose, contact events and frame-accurate action segments aligned on one hardware clock. Teams searching for lobby cleaning robot training data, egocentric hotel common area cleaning video or a hospitality public area cleaning dataset are usually looking for this.
On this site the data is human capture: a paid, consented contributor wears the rig and performs the task from a written skill spec. It is not robot or teleoperation data. It is custom hotel data collection rather than a ready-made library, with the task written down, collected on demand and delivered as validated episodes.
The row
The task catalog states one row for this task: Lobby & Common-Area Cleaning, in the Hotel & Lodging environment. It is rated Easy, its capture mode is Phone (head-mounted) / multiview rig, and it is listed as Ready to deploy.
This page claims no delivered hours, and no hotel lobby footage is published on the site. The first table below gives the row exactly as the catalog words it.
The chores
The row reads "Vacuum and mop lobby floors, dust furniture, polish glass and empty bins." The site states the physical chores only: vacuuming and mopping floors, dusting furniture, polishing glass and emptying bins. It names no cleaning product, no chemical, no brand of equipment, no hotel and no cleaning time, and it does not say what a finished lobby looks like.
Because the site states none of those details, this page does not either. Which chores are in scope, where an episode starts and ends, and what counts as finished are agreed in the written spec. The second table below sets each item against what the site does and does not state.
Neighbouring rows
Several of the chores also appear as separate rows elsewhere in the catalog. Vacuuming and Mopping are rows in the Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial environment, both Easy and Active collection. A guest-room row, "Vacuum and dust guest rooms using a vacuum cleaner and microfiber cloths", sits in Hotel & Lodging and is Easy and Ready to deploy. The trash and recycling page lists the lobby row under bin emptying.
The catalog has no separate glass-polishing row, so the glass chore here comes only from the lobby row. The third table below sets the overlap out with each status as the catalog lists it.
Capture
A head-mounted phone records the first-person view, and a multiview rig adds synchronized third-person angles when the spec asks for them. A wrist-mounted camera is available alongside the head camera for close-range detail. Each episode follows the episode schema used across Firsthand custom collections: ten streams synced under 2 ms, with head and wrist RGB, depth, 3D hand pose with per-joint visibility, contact and grasp events, and frame-accurate action segments.
For lobby work, contact events mark when the fingers make and break contact with a vacuum, a mop, a cloth or a bin, and action segments mark where one chore ends and the next begins. Depth is delivered with distance-invalid pixels flagged rather than interpolated; the site does not say how that applies to lobby glass, so this page makes no precision claim. The site states no camera count, resolution, frame rate or pace measurement. The fourth table below lists each stream and label.
Comparison
The hotel room turnover pages cover resetting a guest room after checkout, which the site treats as back-of-house work. This page covers a shared area of the same environment, so the chores and the bystander picture differ.
The commercial janitorial page covers the wider office and building cleaning environment, the floor cleaning page covers mopping, sweeping and vacuuming across settings, and the trash and recycling page covers waste rows. The fifth table below sets them side by side, with each status as the site states it.
Off the shelf
No. No dataset on the off-the-shelf pages is listed for lobby or common-area cleaning. One stereo dataset, S2, names hotels among its environments alongside bed making, but it lists no lobby or common-area task, so this is custom collection. The row is Ready to deploy, and the collection is scoped to a written spec, on demand.
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. Clips that cannot be de-identified are discarded. The anonymization record is delivered with the data.
The site treats room turnover as back-of-house work and describes guest-facing capture as a different bystander picture, but it states no separate lobby rule. Settle in the spec when capture happens and who may be in frame.
Delivery
Delivery formats are RLDS, LeRobot and WebDataset, plus HDF5, zarr and Rerun .rrd. The first three are the training-loader formats; HDF5 and zarr carry arrays for custom pipelines, and Rerun .rrd gives a multi-stream synchronized playback file for review. The sixth table below sets each against what its official documentation states. The site states one task instruction per episode as the language data for a Firsthand capture.
Every batch is validated against signed accept criteria before it ships, with a reject log, and delivery is rolling, per validated batch.
Fast and 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 timeline up front.
The site does not state whether hotel lobbies count as deep or thin coverage, so the timeline is quoted against your spec. On-demand top-ups run against the same spec and accept criteria after each training run.
The spec
You describe the work your policy needs: which chores, the start state and the end state, and the setting. We turn that into a written spec covering the steps, the environment, the capture tier, annotation depth, the bystander rules and accept criteria, then quote reach, timeline and price against that document before any capture begins. The last table below lists each element.
A Spec Pilot, a small and fast first batch, can prove the spec and the accept criteria before you scale volume. 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.
The stated row
| Catalog task | Catalog description | Skill | Capture | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lobby & Common-Area Cleaning | Vacuum and mop lobby floors, dust furniture, polish glass and empty bins. | Easy | Phone (head-mounted) / multiview rig | Ready to deploy |
Stated vs not stated
| Item | What the site states | For a hotel lobby cleaning order |
|---|---|---|
| Chores | Vacuum and mop lobby floors, dust furniture, polish glass and empty bins | Stated; where each chore starts and ends is set in the spec |
| Skill rating and capture mode | Easy; Phone (head-mounted) / multiview rig | Stated |
| Row status | Ready to deploy | Stated; no volume, hours or delivered footage is claimed on this page |
| Cleaning products, chemicals, equipment brands | Not stated | Not claimed; set in the spec if needed |
| Hotel names, brands, lobby size or layout | Not stated | Not claimed on this page |
| Cleaning time or pace | Not stated | Not claimed on this page |
| Guest-facing capture and bystander rule for lobbies | Not stated; general blur and discard rules apply | Settled in the spec before capture |
| Camera count, resolution, frame rate | Not stated | Not claimed on this page |
| Task instruction | One per episode | Stated |
| Cleanliness outcomes, hygiene, safety or robot results | Not stated | No claim is made |
Overlapping rows
| Chore | Catalog task and description | Environment | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vacuum and mop floors | Lobby & Common-Area Cleaning: vacuum and mop lobby floors, dust furniture, polish glass and empty bins | Hotel & Lodging | Ready to deploy |
| Vacuum floors | Vacuuming: vacuum carpets and hard floors in offices and corridors, moving chairs as needed | Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial | Active collection |
| Mop floors | Mopping: fill the bucket, wring the mop and mop hard floors in sections, changing water as needed | Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial | Active collection |
| Vacuum and dust | Vacuum and dust guest rooms using a vacuum cleaner and microfiber cloths | Hotel & Lodging | Ready to deploy |
| Empty bins | Listed under bin emptying on the trash and recycling page: the lobby row | Hotel & Lodging | Ready to deploy |
| Polish glass | No separate row; the chore appears only in the lobby row | Hotel & Lodging | Ready to deploy |
Streams and labels
| Item | Status on this site | Why it matters for lobby cleaning |
|---|---|---|
| Ten streams synced under 2 ms | Stated | A chore boundary lines up with the exact video and depth frames |
| Depth, with distance-invalid pixels flagged | Stated | Unreliable pixels are marked, not interpolated |
| 3D hand pose with per-joint visibility | Stated | Records the fingers through gripping a tool or a cloth |
| Contact and grasp events | Stated | Marks when the hands take and release a vacuum, mop, cloth or bin |
| Frame-accurate action segments | Stated | Marks where floors end and furniture begins |
| Wrist-mounted camera alongside the head camera | Stated as available | Close-range detail on a surface; used if the spec asks |
| Cleanliness, coverage or glass-clarity labels | Not stated | Not claimed; set in the spec |
| Equipment models, force, pace or task duration | Not stated | Defined in the spec if needed |
Pages compared
| Page | What it covers | Status as stated | How it differs from this page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egocentric hotel room turnover data | The Room Turnover & Inspection row in Hotel & Lodging | Medium; Ready to deploy | Resetting a guest room after checkout, back-of-house work; not a shared area |
| Stereo hotel room turnover and housekeeping data | Stereo-rig capture of the hotel room turnover and housekeeping rows | Per-row status on that page | Stereo capture of guest-room rows; not the lobby row |
| Egocentric commercial janitorial data | The Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial environment, 15 rows | Active collection and Ready to deploy | Offices and commercial buildings; the lobby row is in Hotel & Lodging |
| Egocentric floor cleaning and mopping data | Fourteen rows naming mopping, sweeping, vacuuming or floor care, including the lobby row | Mopping and Vacuuming Active collection; lobby row Ready to deploy | Floors only, across settings; this page adds furniture, glass and bins |
| Egocentric trash and recycling data | Trash, recycling and bin rows, with the lobby row listed under bin emptying | Lobby row Ready to deploy | Waste handling across settings; bins are one of four chores here |
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 |
Skill spec
| Spec element | What it decides | Where it shows up |
|---|---|---|
| Row | The Lobby & Common-Area Cleaning row in Hotel & Lodging, alone or beside neighbouring cleaning rows | Set per program; Ready to deploy |
| Chores and order | Which of floors, furniture, glass and bins one episode covers, and the order | Episode boundaries and action segments; set per program |
| Episode scope | One chore or a full lobby round, and the start and end states | Set per program; the site does not state an episode length |
| Rig and streams | Head-mounted phone, multiview rig, wrist camera, hand pose and any others | The channels you can read; confirm on the Spec Pilot |
| Object definition | Which items count as the object: tool, cloth, furniture, glass, bin | Contact events; set per program |
| Bystanders | When capture happens and who may be in frame in a shared area | Settled in the spec; general blur and discard rules apply |
| Delivery format | How the data is packaged | RLDS, LeRobot, WebDataset, HDF5, zarr or Rerun .rrd |
| Accept criteria | What passes QA, including what counts as a reject | Reject log per batch |
| Privacy | How people and screens in frame are protected | Faces, plates and screens blurred at ingest |
| License | Who owns the dataset | Perpetual, irrevocable, buyer-owned, non-exclusive by default |
Example footage
Two real clips already published on this site, shown as format and rig examples. The first is a household chores clip of an operator carrying a cordless vacuum down a staircase, a first-person hands-on clip. The second is a head-mounted stereo capture with hands in frame. Neither shows hotel lobby cleaning.
No hotel lobby cleaning clip is published on the site, so these are labelled as format and rig examples. Request a sample to see delivered files. See stereo sample page, stereo + wrist-cam example videos, request an egocentric data sample.
FAQ
Sources
Tell us which lobby chores your policy needs and the setting. 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.