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Egocentric Seed Tray Sowing and Transplanting Data

Placing seeds into tray cells and lifting and replanting seedlings, captured first-person on greenhouse and nursery benches against a spec you write, for nursery robot training data, egocentric seed tray sowing video, a seedling transplanting dataset and fast, on-demand custom greenhouse data collection.
Catalog status
Available on request
Skill rating
Medium
Billing
Per validated hour
License
Buyer-owned

Requirements

What does seed tray sowing and transplanting data need?

01

Two named steps, in order

Placing seeds into tray cells and lifting and replanting seedlings are different steps, so a spec names each one, the order it runs in and whether one episode covers both.

02

The hands and the tray in frame

The capture setup keeps the hands, the tray and its cells, the seeds and the seedlings in view through the whole sequence, with the multiview rig adding synchronized angles on the bench.

03

Hand pose through the fine-motor steps

3D hand pose with per-joint visibility carries the finger detail of placing a seed in a cell and lifting a seedling.

04

Step boundaries on the same clock

Frame-accurate action segments mark where seeding starts and stops and where a lift-and-replant step begins and ends, aligned to video and depth.

05

Rights you can ship on

A perpetual, buyer-owned commercial license backed by a documented consent chain.

Definition

What is egocentric seed tray sowing and transplanting data?

Egocentric seed tray sowing and transplanting data is real-world, first-person video of a person placing seeds into tray cells and lifting and replanting seedlings on greenhouse and nursery benches. The site states two catalog rows for this under Greenhouse, Nursery & Garden Centre: Seed a tray, which reads "Place seeds into tray cells," and Transplant seedlings, which reads "Lift and replant seedlings." It is recorded from the worker viewpoint, with depth, 3D hand pose, contact events and frame-accurate action segments aligned on one hardware clock, against a written spec.

People search for this under several names: nursery robot training data, egocentric seed tray sowing video, a seedling transplanting dataset or custom greenhouse data collection. They describe the same thing, a record of how a person fills tray cells with seeds and moves seedlings, seen from the person own point of view, with both hands and the bench in frame.

Sowing and transplanting are not the same as potting, pruning or outdoor row planting. The site states separate rows for each, so this page keeps them apart and treats them as neighbours rather than part of its own task set.

This page states only what the site already states. Where a detail is not in the catalog or the delivery terms, it is marked Not stated and left for the written spec.

Setting

Which sowing and transplanting tasks can be captured?

The catalog states two rows that match a sowing or transplanting query. Both sit in the Greenhouse, Nursery & Garden Centre environment, in the Agriculture & Grounds sector. Both are rated Medium, both list the capture mode Multiview rig + handheld grippers, and both are listed as Available on request. The environment examples read "Greenhouse / grow-bench set: pots, trays, plants, shears, stakes, crates," so both rows are listed on a bench set alongside potting, pruning, trellis and crate-packing rows.

The verbs in the two rows are the verbs a spec can build on: place seeds into tray cells, lift a seedling and replant it. A buyer who needs only the seeding step can ask for that row, one who needs only transplanting can ask for that row, and one who needs a bench sequence covering both can ask for them together. The catalog does not split either row into finer steps or say that the two are recorded as one sequence, so any split or chain is a spec choice and not a stated task list.

The site does not state which seeds, tray formats or cell counts, growing media, tools, source or destination containers are used, how many trays a session covers, or what a finished tray looks like. Those are Not stated and are set in the written spec before capture begins.

The plant care and gardening page also lists both rows, under a Planting heading alongside farm-environment planting rows. That is a task-by-task overview, and this page is the one focused on the two tray and seedling rows.

Neighbours

How is this different from potting and farm planting?

Three nearby groups of rows are stated elsewhere on the site, and each is a different task from the two this page covers. The Greenhouse, Nursery & Garden Centre environment lists Pot plants, which reads "Fill a pot, plant, and water," and the plant potting and nursery page covers it, with Seed a tray named only as a neighbour.

The Farm & Field Operations environment lists three planting rows: Planting, described as sowing seeds or setting plants in prepared soil at spacing and covering and watering them, rated Medium and Active collection; Plant and transplant seedlings using a hand trowel and seedling trays, which reads "Take seedlings from trays, dig with a trowel and plant them at spacing along the row," rated Medium and Active collection; and Agriculture Planting & Transplanting, described as digging holes or furrows, setting seedlings in place and firming the soil, rated Medium and Ready to deploy.

Those farm rows describe outdoor, in-ground planting, with different statuses from the two bench rows, so they are not the same collection. If your policy needs outdoor row planting rather than tray and bench work, the farm and field page is the closer fit, and a spec can ask for both.

Streams and labels

What does each episode contain?

Each episode follows the Firsthand episode schema: ten streams synced under 2 ms, with head and wrist RGB, depth, 3D hand pose with per-joint visibility, contact events on grasp and release, and frame-accurate action segments. For sowing and transplanting, hand pose tracks the fingers on a seed or a seedling, contact events mark when fingers meet a tray, a seed or a seedling, and action segments mark each step of the sequence.

The site also states 200 Hz 6-DoF IMUs on the Firsthand capture rig. Both rows list the capture mode Multiview rig + handheld grippers, which the site describes as a staged working set recorded by a multiview rig while the operator performs the task with handheld grippers, so demonstrations map onto a robot end effector. Confirm the stream list in the spec before you plan a training pipeline around a specific sensor.

Object labels use the terms your spec sets. Seed types, tray formats, growing media, tools, and a seeding-outcome or task-completion label are Not stated. If your policy needs a label such as "seed placed in cell" or "seedling settled," define it in the spec and the accept criteria. This page makes no head or camera pose, mapping or SLAM claim as a deliverable.

The only language data the site ties to Firsthand capture is one task instruction per episode. This page does not claim reward labels, human interventions, teleoperation corrections, preference labels or other language annotations as deliverables.

Delivery

How is the data labeled and delivered?

Delivery formats are RLDS, LeRobot and WebDataset, plus HDF5, zarr and Rerun .rrd. The format table below sets each against what its official documentation states. Sowing and transplanting episodes use the same schema as every other Firsthand collection, so a loader that reads another Firsthand dataset reads this one without changes.

Every batch is validated against signed accept criteria before it ships, with a reject log, and delivery is rolling, per validated batch. Rejected items are recaptured at our cost. Billing is per validated hour, and every collection ships under a perpetual, buyer-owned commercial license.

The site does not state a number of episodes, a batch size or a total hour count for either row, so those are quoted against your spec and not assumed here.

Why it matters

Why does sowing and transplanting data matter for nursery robot training?

Seeding a tray and moving seedlings are small, repeated hand movements with living material. A person places seeds into cells, or lifts a seedling and replants it. A policy that is meant to learn this needs to see how the fingers move and when they touch the seed, the cell and the seedling, not only the finished state of the tray.

First-person video suits that need because the view follows the worker, so the tray, the seedling and the hands stay in view. 3D hand pose and contact events add the finger-level detail that plain video leaves implicit, and action segments mark where each step starts and stops so a model can learn the order as well as the motion.

This page quotes no robot result, no germination or survival rate, no yield, no throughput figure and no benchmark. It also does not claim that any model has been trained on this data, and it makes no plant-health, chemical, pesticide, fertilizer, safety or certification claim. The site states two catalog tasks and a capture and delivery method, and the value to a given policy is something a pilot can test against your own accept criteria.

Setting and privacy

Where is it captured and how is privacy protected?

For the capture mode both rows use, the site describes a staged working set recorded by a multiview rig while the operator performs the task with handheld grippers, so demonstrations map onto a robot end effector. That is a staged set rather than a claim of recording unstaged real-time work, and it is the only capture mode this page states for sowing and transplanting.

The site does not state whose bench that is, how many sites a collection uses, or which regions or cities are covered for either row. Elsewhere it states that Firsthand does not capture at a customer own facility, so this page makes no claim of capture there. Environment, access and schedule are agreed in the spec.

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. The anonymization record is delivered with the data.

That is the whole of the privacy wording the site states. It does not state a rule for data stored on a device, so none is claimed here, and raise it in the spec if it matters to you.

Fast · on demand

How fast can a custom greenhouse dataset be collected?

The catalog lists both rows as Available on request. The site defines that status as scoped and recruited to spec when a buyer asks for it, so this is not a row where recording is already running. Its timeline is quoted against your spec before any capture begins.

The site publishes two per-batch speed figures. 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 seed tray sowing and transplanting, so the quote says.

On-demand top-ups run against the same spec and accept criteria after each training run. The site does not state a batch size or a later-batch turnaround for either row, so those are quoted against your spec.

The spec

How do you start a pilot?

You describe the sowing or transplanting sequence your policy needs. We turn that into a written spec covering tasks, environments, capture tier, annotation depth and accept criteria, then quote reach, timeline and price before any capture begins.

A Spec Pilot, a small and fast first batch, can prove the spec and accept criteria before you scale. Billing is per validated hour, a reject log ships with every batch, rejected items are recaptured at our cost, and every collection ships under a perpetual, buyer-owned commercial license.

Useful things to settle in the spec are whether you want seeding, transplanting or both, the tray and container types, the growing medium, any label you want for step success, and the formats you want delivered. Each of those is Not stated by the site today, which is why the spec is where they are written down.

At a glance

What you get.

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.

What the site states

What does the site state about seed tray sowing and transplanting?

Where seed tray sowing and seedling transplanting appear on this site, what each place states and how this page uses it.
Where it appearsWhat the site statesUsed on this page as
Task catalog, Greenhouse, Nursery & Garden Centre environmentSeed a tray: "Place seeds into tray cells," rated Medium and Available on requestThe stated sowing task
Task catalog, Greenhouse, Nursery & Garden Centre environmentTransplant seedlings: "Lift and replant seedlings," rated Medium and Available on requestThe stated transplanting task
Environment examples line"Greenhouse / grow-bench set: pots, trays, plants, shears, stakes, crates"Context: both rows sit on a shared bench set
Task catalog, Farm & Field Operations environmentThree planting rows, rated Medium: Planting and Plant and transplant seedlings using a hand trowel and seedling trays (Active collection), and Agriculture Planting & Transplanting (Ready to deploy)Neighbouring, outdoor in-ground planting tasks; not part of this page task set
Capture mode descriptionA staged working set recorded by a multiview rig while the operator performs the task with handheld grippers, so demonstrations map onto a robot end effectorHow capture is described for both rows

Catalog rows

Which catalog rows sit on the same bench set?

Six of the twelve rows listed under Greenhouse, Nursery & Garden Centre, with the catalog description, skill rating and status as listed. All twelve use the capture mode Multiview rig + handheld grippers.
Task familyCatalog task and descriptionSkillStatus
Target task, sowingSeed a tray: place seeds into tray cellsMediumAvailable on request
Target task, transplantingTransplant seedlings: lift and replant seedlingsMediumAvailable on request
Neighbour, pottingPot plants: fill a pot, plant, and waterEasyAvailable on request
Neighbour, pruningPrune with shears: cut stems at the node with shearsMediumAvailable on request
Neighbour, supportStake + clip plant: stake and clip a stem for supportMediumAvailable on request
Neighbour, trellisTrellis training: weave stems into a trellisMediumAvailable on request

Streams and labels

What does each episode carry, and what is not stated?

Streams and labels the site states for Firsthand custom collections, and nursery fields the site does not state.
ItemStatus on this siteWhy it matters for seed tray sowing and transplanting data
Head and wrist RGB, depthStated; ten streams synced under 2 msKeeps the tray, seedlings and hands on one timeline
3D hand pose, per-joint visibilityStatedCarries the finger detail of placing a seed and lifting a seedling
Contact events on grasp and releaseStatedMarks when fingers meet a tray, a seed or a seedling
Action segmentsStated; frame-accurateSeparates seeding, lifting and replanting
200 Hz 6-DoF IMUsStated for the Firsthand capture rig; whether a given collection includes them is set in the specMotion signal for pipelines that use it
Task instructionStated; one per episodeThe only language data the site ties to Firsthand capture
Seed types, tray formats, cell counts, growing mediaNot stated; the rows name seeds, tray cells, trays and seedlings onlyDefined in the spec
Number of trays, episodes or hoursNot statedQuoted against the spec
Task durations, throughputNot statedDefined in the spec if needed
Seeding or transplant success labelNot statedDefined in the spec if needed
Number of sites, regions or citiesNot statedAgreed in the spec

Formats

Which formats carry seed tray sowing and transplanting data?

Delivery formats stated on the site, set against what each format official documentation states where the documentation was read.
FormatWhat the official documentation statesUsed for here
RLDSA dataset is retrieved as a tf.data.Dataset of episodes, and each episode contains a dataset of steps (RLDS repository README)Episode-based training loaders
LeRobotLeRobotDataset 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
WebDatasetTar files in which files that belong together share a basename, with shards numbered like something-000000.tar (WebDataset README)Sharded streaming for large training runs
HDF5 and zarrStated by Firsthand onlyArray storage for custom pipelines
Rerun .rrdStated by Firsthand onlyMulti-stream synchronized playback for review

FAQ

Nursery robot training data, answered.

What is egocentric seed tray sowing and transplanting data?
Real-world, first-person video of a person placing seeds into tray cells and lifting and replanting seedlings on greenhouse and nursery benches, captured against a written spec with 3D hand pose, depth and action segments.
Which sowing and transplanting tasks does the site state?
Two catalog rows under Greenhouse, Nursery & Garden Centre: Seed a tray ("Place seeds into tray cells") and Transplant seedlings ("Lift and replant seedlings"). Both are rated Medium and listed as Available on request.
Is the data recorded on real work or a staged set?
For the capture mode both rows use, the site describes a staged working set recorded by a multiview rig while the operator performs the task with handheld grippers. It does not state whose bench, and it states that Firsthand does not capture at a customer own facility.
Does the site state seed types, tray formats, growing media or episode counts?
No. The rows name seeds, tray cells, trays and seedlings only. Seed types, tray formats, growing media, episode counts and hour counts are Not stated and are set in the written spec.
How is this different from the farm planting rows?
The Farm & Field Operations rows cover outdoor, in-ground planting and have their own statuses. The two Greenhouse, Nursery & Garden Centre rows this page covers are tray seeding and lift-and-replant transplanting on a grow bench.
How fast can a custom greenhouse dataset be collected?
Both rows are Available on request, so timeline is quoted against your spec. The site states a median of 48 hours to a first validated batch where coverage is deep, and three to four weeks where it is thin.

Sources

Where are the delivery formats documented?

Request a custom dataset.

Tell us the trays, seedlings and bench sequence your policy needs to handle. We will quote reach, timeline, and price against a written spec before any capture begins.