Egocentric Tile and Flooring Installation Video Data

Egocentric tile and flooring installation data is real-world video recorded from the point of view of a person who is laying tile. The camera sits on the head, so the footage shows what the person sees: the hands, the tile and the surface being covered. Alongside the video, each episode carries depth, 3D hand pose, contact events and frame-accurate action segments, all aligned on one hardware clock.

Teams search for it under several names, including tile installation robot training data, a flooring task video dataset and egocentric tiling data. They all describe first-person demonstrations of trades work, collected to a written spec. This page covers only what the Firsthand site states about it and marks everything else as Not stated.

The site states one tiling task in its commercial task catalog. The row is named "Tiling" and described as "Spread adhesive, set tiles with spacers, cut edge tiles and grout the joints". That wording names four operations: spreading adhesive, setting tiles with spacers, cutting edge tiles and grouting the joints.

Anything outside that wording is Not stated. That includes wall tiling versus floor tiling, floor preparation, laying planks or vinyl, fitting baseboards and sealing, so none is claimed here. If your policy needs one of them, you write it into the spec and we scope it, because the catalog row is a starting vocabulary, not a fixed menu.

No. The catalog has no row for installing floor planks, vinyl or baseboards, and no row for any other flooring installation. The word flooring in the route name is the search term teams use, not a task the site states. The only floor-related rows the catalog words are cleaning rows, such as extracting and drying carpets, and those are not installation, so this page does not count them.

Teams that need flooring beyond tiling can still ask for it. The route is the same as for every custom collection: you describe the work, we write a spec, and we quote against it before any capture begins. Whether recording for that work is already running is Not stated, so expect a quote rather than a fixed timeline.

The tiling row is rated Hard. It sits in the Construction & Trades sector, in an environment called Active Construction Site, and it lists a head-mounted phone or a multiview rig as the capture mode. Its status is Active collection.

The site defines that status plainly: recording in the environment is running now, so a spec can join an existing capture stream. It does not state how many hours, episodes or contributors exist for the row, so a first batch is quoted against your spec.

The Active Construction Site environment lists an active construction site, carpentry, electrical installation, plumbing, drywall, tiling and painting among its examples. It holds 15 rows. Six are rated Hard, seven Medium and two Easy, and the tiling row is one of the Hard six. Eleven rows are Active collection and four are Ready to deploy.

The site defines two capture modes. A head-mounted phone records the first-person view of real work on site. A multiview rig with handheld grippers records a staged working set. The tiling row lists both modes and does not say which applies, so the site does not settle whether a given batch is a real workplace or a staged set. That is agreed in the spec.

The site names no building, contractor or venue, and does not state the number of sites, the regions, the room or building types or the surfaces being tiled. It does not state capture at a customer job site either. Environment, access and schedule are agreed in the written spec.

A head-mounted phone records the first-person view of the job, and a multiview rig adds synchronized third-person angles when the spec asks for them. On the staged set, the operator performs the task with handheld grippers, so the demonstration maps onto a robot end effector. A wrist-mounted camera is available alongside the head camera for close-range detail on the piece being placed. Camera count, resolution, frame rate and room layout are Not stated.

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 and grasp events, and frame-accurate action segments. For tile work, hand pose tracks the fingers and wrist as they place and adjust a piece, contact events mark when a hand or tool meets or leaves an object, and action segments mark each step of the job.

Object labels use the terms your spec sets. Tile counts, tile sizes, materials, adhesive and grout products, tool types and room types are Not stated. Task durations, cycle times, throughput and the number of episodes are Not stated too. Tolerances, flatness and level are Not stated, as are success or quality labels, certifications and robot results. The site makes no building-code, licensing, dust or safety-compliance claim for this work.

The site rates the tiling row Hard, and it is one of six Hard rows among the 15 in its environment. That rating is the site only statement on difficulty. The site gives no technical analysis of tiling, so this page makes no claim about robot results, and it does not state how depth behaves on wet adhesive or small joints.

What the row wording implies is a chain of different operations in a fixed order. Spreading adhesive, setting tiles with spacers, cutting edge tiles and grouting the joints each use the hands and the tool differently, and each one depends on the step before it. The viewpoint matters too. The site states that a robot or humanoid perceives from a head- or wrist-mounted camera, not a static overhead shot, and that egocentric capture matches that geometry.

A good spec treats each named operation as its own task. Spreading adhesive, setting tiles with spacers, cutting edge tiles and grouting the joints each get a start state, an end state and a set of accept criteria. That keeps action segments consistent across contributors and lets you ask for more of one operation without re-collecting the others.

Other pages cover other task families: measuring and marking, drilling and mounting, sanding and finishing, plumbing, and the broader construction and skilled trades page. Each describes a different row or group of rows in the same task catalog.

The catalog also words tiling in two other places. The mosaic tiling row, "Cut tiles, spread adhesive, set the pieces in the pattern and grout the surface", sits in a Glass & Mosaic Studio environment as studio craft, rated Medium and Available on request, and it has its own page. A hotel bathroom row mentions deep cleaning tiles and grout, which is cleaning rather than installation. This page centres on the one tiling row in Active Construction Site.

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

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, and billing is per validated hour.

Not in standard capture. Force or tactile readings are Not stated for the tiling row. The site separately offers a tactile glove tier as a pilot-ready option, in which glove signals are time-synced to a head-mounted stereo camera by hardware timestamps and an IMU. The site does not state that the tier has been used on tile work, so agree the fit with us first.

Every episode links to a signed contributor release through a documented consent chain, and the consent record is part of the delivery. A vision model runs on every frame at ingest, flagging faces, heads, licence plates and any legible screen or document. Those regions are irreversibly blurred, and a human reviewer confirms the result before footage ships.

If the reviewer is unsure a region is fully covered, the episode is held or discarded, never downgraded and shipped. The site does not state that readable signage is blurred, so raise any such need before the spec is signed. It states no in-home capture for this work.

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 tiling row is Active collection, which means recording is running, but the site does not state how deep coverage is, so plan on a quote rather than assuming the 48 hour figure.

The site also states program milestones. A pilot reaches its first delivery in two to three weeks, and a standing program reaches full rate in four to six weeks. Those assume capture coverage is already in place. On-demand top-ups run against the same spec and accept criteria after each training run. A batch size and a later-batch turnaround are Not stated, so both are quoted against your spec.

You describe the tiling or flooring operations, the surfaces and the 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. This is the custom egocentric data collection route that every Firsthand task family follows.

A Spec Pilot, a small and fast first batch, can prove the spec and accept criteria before you scale. Every collection ships under a perpetual, buyer-owned commercial license, with a reject log and signed accept criteria on every batch.