Talos Capture Glove
Capture the Craft
Skilled Hands, Recorded
Talos puts sensor-dense gloves and egocentric cameras on licensed electricians, plumbers and HVAC techs — and turns real jobsite work into training data for physical AI.
Real Jobsites
Captured on live residential and commercial jobs, not staged tabletop demos
Licensed Experts
Every session is performed by a journeyman or master tradesperson
Robot-Ready
Synchronized, calibrated streams built for imitation learning and VLA training
Install a P-TrapEvery Task, First Person
The head camera sees exactly what the tradesperson sees, while the glove records how their hands move and how hard they grip.
How capture works
The Capture Lab
Alongside field capture, our lab runs full-scale mock-up bays — panels, rough-ins, condensers, cabinetry — where tradespeople repeat tasks under calibrated motion capture. Clean, repeatable demonstrations, at scale.
Inside the labThe Rig
Built for the Jobsite
The Talos rig disappears into the workday — light enough for a ten-hour shift, tough enough for a crawlspace.
Explore the rig
Light
Glove, head camera and recorder together weigh less than a tape measure
Dexterous
A thin knit shell preserves fingertip feel and full tool control
Rugged
Abrasion-resistant textile and sealed electronics built for dust and grime
All-Shift
Hot-swappable batteries keep capture running from first call to cleanup
The Data
What We Capture
Every session is a synchronized, multimodal record of skilled work — what the expert saw, how their hands moved, what they touched and why.
See every channel
Strip ¾″ of insulationGrip force · 14 NTool · wire stripperEgocentric Video
Stereo 60 fps video and depth from the tradesperson's point of view
3D Hand Pose
Full articulated pose for both hands, every joint, every frame
Touch & Force
Fingertip and palm pressure that shows how hard — and where — they grip
Narration & Labels
Spoken intent plus expert-reviewed task, tool and outcome annotations
Talos Capture Glove
- Hand tracking
- 22 DoF per hand, flex + IMU fusion
- Tactile array
- 136 taxels across fingertips and palm
- Force range
- 0 – 150 N
- Sample rate
- 200 Hz tactile · 400 Hz IMU
- Weight
- 58 g per glove
- Sizes
- XS – XXL, washable knit shell
Talos Head Camera
- Video
- Stereo 2 × 1920 × 1200 @ 60 fps
- Shutter
- Global shutter, HDR
- Field of view
- 125° diagonal
- Depth
- Stereo depth, 0.2 – 4 m
- Audio
- Dual-mic narration channel
- Mount
- Hard-hat brim clip or knit headband
Talos Recorder
- Sync
- Hardware timestamps, < 1 ms across streams
- Storage
- 1 TB, encrypted on device
- Battery
- 10 h, hot-swappable
- Offload
- Wi-Fi 6 or USB-C at end of shift
- Ingress
- IP54 electronics
Data Delivery
- Formats
- MP4 video · CSV or Parquet sensors · JSON labels, or your schema
- Annotations
- Task, sub-step, tool, object, outcome
- Language
- Narrated intent + expert QA notes
- Privacy
- Face, address and document redaction
- Licensing
- Exclusive or non-exclusive
Use Cases
Built for Physical AI Teams
Tabletop demos only go so far. Talos data comes from the messy, cramped, real places robots will actually have to work.
Example task familiesHumanoid & Robotics Labs
Train dexterous manipulation policies on real trade tasks, from wire terminations to pipe fittings.
Foundation Model Teams
Egocentric, multimodal episodes for world models and vision-language-action pretraining.
Tool & Equipment Makers
See how professionals actually grip, angle and apply force with your tools in the field.
Trade Schools & Unions
Preserve master-level technique as first-person reference footage for the next generation.
- Electrical
- Plumbing
- HVAC
- Carpentry
- Drywall
- Tile
- Low Voltage
- Appliance Repair
For Tradespeople
Get Paid for What You Already Know
Your hands hold decades of know-how that robots can't learn anywhere else. Wear the Talos rig while you work and earn 25% of Talos's net receipts from your recordings for two years.
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Apply
Tell us your trade, license and the kind of work you do.
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Sign & Get Fitted
Sign the Electrician Agreement, then we set you up with a rig and walk you through safety.
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Record & Earn
Record at our bench or on jobs your employer signs off on. Earn 25% of net receipts from your recordings for 24 months, with a $100 minimum.
What is Talos Data Works?
A physical AI data lab for the skilled trades. We outfit licensed tradespeople with the Talos rig — capture gloves, a head camera and a recorder — and turn their real work into multimodal training data for robots and embodied AI.
Who is the data for?
Robotics and humanoid teams, foundation model labs building world models and VLAs, and anyone who needs dexterous, real-world manipulation data beyond tabletop demos.
How is privacy handled on jobsites?
Every rig wearer, their business and every customer property sign before recording, and so does anyone else who will be clearly seen or heard. Other people's faces are blurred and their conversations muted before anything leaves Talos, recordings are stored under a contributor ID rather than a name, and they are never used to identify anyone. Recording pauses whenever someone asks. Read our Data Privacy & Agreements →
Does the rig slow tradespeople down?
It's designed to disappear: a thin knit glove, a camera on the hard hat and a recorder on the belt. Tradespeople work at their normal pace on their normal jobs.
What formats do you deliver?
One directory per episode: video as MP4, sensor streams as CSV or Parquet, and labels and a manifest as JSON, or in your own schema. Every file is listed in the manifest with its channel, rate, units and checksum, and every channel is aligned to a single session clock. See every channel →
Can we commission specific tasks?
Yes. Custom capture programs let you specify trades, tasks, environments and volume — in the field, in our lab, or both.
How do I join as a tradesperson?
Apply with your trade and license details. Accepted contributors sign the Electrician Agreement, and their employer signs off if they record on the job. Contributors earn 25% of Talos's net receipts from their recordings for 24 months after their first session, with a $100 minimum for anyone who records at least two hours. See what the agreement covers →
Train on the Real Thing
Tell us what your robots need to learn. We'll design a custom capture program around your tasks, channels and schema.