Depth on large and small parts alike
A housing the size of a door and a meter register the size of a palm both need geometry a policy can read. Stereo gives depth aligned with the RGB frame for both.
Appliance and metering plants
Egocentric stereo capture for appliance and metering plants.
Large housings, tubing, gaskets and small sealed parts make appliance and metering plants a demanding place to see depth. We collect custom egocentric stereo capture for air conditioner, gas appliance, refrigerator and cold appliance and water meter plants, on demand and to a written spec, with calibrated stereo, synchronized streams and a buyer-owned license.
- Environments
- Four appliance and metering plant types
- Capture
- Head-mounted stereo, calibrated per session
- Sync
- Hardware-triggered, one PTP clock domain
- License
- Perpetual, buyer-owned
Requirements
What does appliance and metering work need from a capture?
The hand and the part in one view
Head-mounted stereo shows the approach and the fit, and wrist views stay on the grasp when the hand blocks the head camera.
Hand pose in 3D
Hand pose is 21 joints per hand, 3D, in metres in the head-camera frame, with a per-joint visibility flag.
Spec first, venue second
The task list, the step order and the accept criteria are written down before capture. Venue access for each plant type is confirmed in the quote.
Definition
What is egocentric stereo capture for appliance and metering plants?
It is video recorded from the point of view of the person doing the work, through two calibrated cameras spaced like human eyes, in plants that build cooling, gas, cold and metering equipment. The camera sees what the worker sees, including the hands and the part, and every frame pair carries recoverable depth.
Environments
Which appliance and metering environments are covered?
Air conditioner plants: typical work includes fitting coils, covers and tubing, wiring and final checks. Gas appliance plants: assembling burners and valves, fitting connections and inspecting assembled units. Refrigerator and cold appliance plants: fitting doors, shelves and gaskets and doing panel and wiring work. Water meter plants: assembling small meter bodies and registers and fitting seals.
These are examples of the work typical of each setting. Your task list comes from your skill spec, and whether recording for a given plant is already running is Not stated on this page.
Why it is hard
Why is appliance and metering work hard for robot learning?
Housings are large and often plain, so a single camera has little texture to judge distance from. Seals, gaskets and tubing are deformable and easy to hide behind a hand. Small meter parts are held close to the lens, where depth errors turn into missed fits.
None of this is solved by more RGB hours. It is helped by measured depth, a viewpoint that matches the robot, and labels in 3D.
Episodes
What does each episode contain?
Streams are a global-shutter 4K/60 head camera with a 120° lens, two wrist 1080p/60 cameras, depth at 848×480 and 30 fps, and 200 Hz 6-DoF IMUs, all hardware-triggered onto one PTP clock domain. Intrinsics and extrinsics are re-solved with a checkerboard target at the start and end of every session.
Calibration ships with the episode. Which streams a given plant program carries is Not stated and is set in the skill spec.
Delivery
How is the data labeled and delivered?
Hand joints, object poses and contact events are annotated against the stereo geometry. Episodes ship as RLDS, LeRobot, WebDataset, HDF5 or zarr, with per-stream nanosecond timestamps. Collections are billed per validated hour, with a visible reject log.
Speed
How fast can a custom appliance or metering dataset be collected?
Where coverage is deep, a first validated batch lands in a median of 48 hours from a signed spec. Where it is thin, plan on three to four weeks. Which applies here is quoted against your spec, because the site does not state coverage for these plant types.
Getting started
How do you start an appliance or metering pilot?
Name the plant type, list the steps in order, say how each starts and ends, and describe the variation your pipeline is missing. We turn that into a skill spec, quote reach, timeline and price, and usually begin with a small Spec Pilot. Then request a custom dataset.
Environments
What work is typical of each appliance and metering plant?
| Environment | Typical work (examples) |
|---|---|
| Air conditioner plant | Fitting coils, covers and tubing; wiring; final checks |
| Gas appliance plant | Assembling burners and valves; fitting connections; inspection |
| Refrigerator and cold appliance plant | Fitting doors, shelves and gaskets; panel and wiring work |
| Water meter plant | Assembling small meter bodies and registers; fitting seals |
Every collection runs through the same seven-stage end-to-end custom collection pipeline.
Delivered vs not stated
What is stated, and what is Not stated?
| Item | Status | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Stereo calibrated per session | Stated | Shipped with each episode |
| Hardware sync | Stated | One PTP clock domain |
| Hand pose | Stated | 21 joints per hand, 3D, in the head-camera frame |
| Delivery formats | Stated | RLDS, LeRobot, WebDataset, HDF5 or zarr |
| License | Stated | Perpetual, buyer-owned |
| Plant types recording now | Not stated | Confirmed before a quote |
| Part types, tolerances and standards | Not stated | Not promised on this page |
| Cycle times and episode counts | Not stated | Agreed in the spec |
FAQ
Egocentric stereo capture for appliance and metering plants, answered.
- Which plants are covered?
- Air conditioner, gas appliance, refrigerator and cold appliance, and water meter plants. Access for each is confirmed before a quote.
- What does an episode contain?
- Head-mounted stereo, two wrist views, depth and IMU on one hardware clock, with calibration shipped alongside and 3D hand pose.
- Are tolerances, standards or cycle times included?
- Not stated. Those are agreed per order and are not promised on this page.
- Can I pick the tasks?
- Yes. Tasks, step order and accept criteria come from a written skill spec that is quoted before capture begins.
- How fast is a first batch?
- Where coverage is deep, a median of 48 hours from a signed spec. Where it is thin, three to four weeks.
- Who owns the data?
- You do. Licenses are perpetual and buyer-owned.
Scope an appliance or metering plant capture.
Tell us the plant type, the steps and the failure cases. We quote reach, timeline and price against a written spec before capture begins.