- state
- joint · pose · timing
- contact
- force · tactile · slip
- outcome
- failure · recovery
Robotics · Science · Audio
A powerful 3-part data engine for the physical world.
World Data turns model gaps into instrumented collection programs, structured evidence, and held-out proof—for machines that act, systems that discover, and models that listen.
Founding design-partner program · pre-launch · no public dataset claims
- protocol
- steps · materials · lots
- instrument
- raw · method · calibration
- outcome
- positive · negative · failed
- voice
- speaker · language · style
- space
- room · device · noise
- interaction
- overlap · turn · latency
Illustrative mechanism—not a completed customer dataset or benchmark.
The next data frontier
The internet taught models language. The physical world teaches consequence.
Robots need actions and contact. Scientific models need protocols and measured outcomes. Audio systems need speakers, rooms, devices, and interaction. In every case, the valuable record is more than a file.
World Data builds the causal evidence around it—what happened, under which conditions, who owns it, and whether the model improved.
Three collection systems
One company. Three ways into the physical world.
Each domain has its own instruments and failure modes. All three use the same operating discipline: evidence before volume.
Turn deployment failures into learning-grade physical episodes.
Retrofit existing robots. Synchronize vision, state, action, force, intervention, and recovery. Connect real collection to calibrated simulation and a hidden task evaluation.
- Action-conditioned trajectories
- Contact, failure, and recovery
- Calibration and clock integrity
- Real↔sim discrepancy evidence
Real episodes, calibration, twin, synthetic lineage, and held-out task result.
Turn a model prediction into reproducible experimental evidence.
Design and run targeted physical experiments for materials, chemistry, physics, and non-clinical biology. Preserve raw instrument files, protocols, process conditions, uncertainty, and failed attempts.
- Materials and formulation data
- Protocols, lots, and apparatus state
- Raw measurements and uncertainty
- Negative and failed experiments
Study design, protocol, raw observations, QC, outcomes, rights, and prospective evaluation.
Capture the voices and acoustic conditions clean benchmarks miss.
Collect consented speech and interaction across speakers, languages, rooms, devices, noise, overlap, and latency. Keep participant rights and physical capture context attached.
- ASR and domain speech
- Diarization and separation
- TTS and voice variation
- Speech-to-speech interaction
Versioned audio, alignments, conditions, speaker metadata, consent, QA, and evaluation slices.
A “What happens when—” B “—the turns overlap?”
The shared infrastructure
One evidence standard across every domain.
The sensors change. The contract does not. Every accepted record must explain why it exists, how it was produced, what happened, and where it may be used.
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Objective
Start from the model gap.why collect
A failing task, missing physical condition, uncertain prediction, or uncovered cohort.
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Acquisition
Instrument the causal record.what happened
Environment, apparatus, action, timing, calibration, sample, speaker, or robot.
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Outcome
Keep success, failure, and uncertainty.what it means
Negative evidence stays distinct from corrupt, censored, or quarantined runs.
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Governance
Attach provenance and rights.who controls it
Ownership, consent, lineage, allowed uses, transformations, and retention travel with the data.
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Evaluation
Freeze proof before training.did it work
Separate the acquisition program from a held-out test that can reveal real lift.
How World Data works
Collect less blindly. Learn more from every physical record.
We begin with a bounded behavior or decision. The first program is designed to expose whether the missing evidence can move it—not to manufacture an impressive volume number.
Bring us one model gap- DefineFreeze the question.
Set the intended use, baseline, acceptance rule, and protected evaluation boundary.
- DesignSpecify the missing world.
Select environments, instruments, subjects, samples, failure slices, and metadata.
- CapturePreserve the raw evidence.
Collect physical context at the source and reject silent defects before delivery.
- ProveMeasure what changed.
Compare the baseline and updated system on the frozen, held-out evaluation.
Data boundaries
Your physical evidence should not become someone else’s training set.
Customer-commissioned raw and derived data is customer-owned by default. Any reusable methodology, consortium contribution, or public release must be explicit in the contract.
Final ownership, privacy, consent, residency, and permitted-use terms are engagement-specific.
Start with one gap
What does your model still misunderstand about the physical world?
Prepare a short scoping brief. It stays in your browser until you choose to copy or email it.
- one model behavior or scientific decision;
- the physical condition it currently misses;
- the evidence you already have;
- the result that would justify a larger program.