Across Indonesia, India, Brazil, and beyond, thousands of gig workers are strapping cameras to their heads and recording the quiet rhythms of domestic life — washing dishes, folding clothes, sweeping floors — so that machines might one day learn to do the same. The arrangement sits at an uncomfortable intersection of human labour and technological ambition: workers earn a few dollars an hour feeding data to robotics companies racing to build humanoid household assistants, while questions of fair compensation, informed consent, and genuine benefit remain largely unanswered. It is an old story i