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5 minutes minimum

Every paid video must be at least 5 minutes long, in one take. Shorter videos are refused at upload and are not paid.

Every video needs

  • At least 5 minutes, in one continuous take
  • Both hands in the frame
  • English narration, in the present tense (voice-over is OK)
  • Start and end in the same place
  • Landscape, 1080p HD
  • 60 fps (30 fps if your phone can't do 60)
  • A head mount (or a chest mount if your phone has a 0.5x wide lens)
  • Your own home only (no other people, no children, no personal details in view)

Robotics video data · Global workforce

Robots learn from people who already know how.

QwestLab pays a global community to record everyday physical work from their own point of view — and turns it into the training data robotics teams can actually use.

First-person view looking down at both hands washing a plate with a sponge in a kitchen sink, dish rack and clean plates either side.GUIDE

Wash dishes

EGOCENTRIC · 1080p30 · HANDS VISIBLE

First-person view looking down at both hands folding a t-shirt on a bed, with a folded stack and a laundry basket in frame.GUIDE

Fold laundry

BOTH HANDS

First-person view looking down at both hands using a wrench on an engine under an open car bonnet.GUIDE

Engine repair

TOOL USE

The kit

US$4.00 back after your first accepted hour

Your phone, and a head strap.
We pay the strap back.

Every task is recorded from your point of view, so the phone sits in a head strap with the camera looking at your hands. That strap is the only thing you need to buy, and for the first 100 people, you get the money back.

  1. Buy any phone head strap₱150–300, about US$3–6. Any brand, any shop, as long as it holds your phone on your forehead.
  2. Upload the strap and the receiptOne photo, on your Kit page in the app. We check it within a few days.
  3. Reach your first accepted hour of videoThen, and only then, US$4.00 goes into your QwestLab wallet. Only accepted videos count.
A person wearing a phone in a head strap while working in a kitchen, the rear camera pointing down at their hands.
The strap, worn (illustration)
A real capture: a contributor at a kitchen counter with the phone mounted, hands and work in view.
A real task
Illustration of the T-rex pose: elbows tucked, empty hands up in front of the chest, with an inset of what the camera sees.
Hands up, in frame

Running total

0 / 100

straps paid back · 100 left

Every clip earns its place.

Nothing reaches a dataset without passing automated checks and a human reviewer. Contributors are paid on acceptance, and buyers get provenance for every frame.

  1. 01Contributor
  2. 02Task
  3. 03Capture
  4. 04Automated checks
  5. 05Human QA
  6. 06Structuring
  7. 07Accepted clip
  8. 08Client delivery