Human skill — machine intelligence.
We operate in the Physical AI market. Businesses built on manual work get paid for videos of their team's everyday work, which robots learn from.
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UMELA Labs is a partner programme for businesses. We find companies where people work with their hands: kitchens, warehouses, workshops, manufacturing, agriculture. And we help them join the collection of video data used to train robots.
Staff at these companies work as usual, while a head-mounted camera records only their hands and workspace. These videos become training material for robots, and the business earns additional revenue for the accepted recording hours.
Robots learn the same way people do: by watching a master.
Physical AI is artificial intelligence that controls robots in the real world. It picks up, assembles, packs, cuts.
Robots have long been faster than us at calculating. But they still can't do what the hands of a cook, an assembler or a packer do every day. You can't learn that from books, only by watching a person at work.
That's why tech companies need thousands of hours of video of real manual work. Not staged, but the work your team already does every day.
Our role: to guide you from the first conversation to launch.
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We get to know you
We explain how the programme works and check whether your work qualifies.
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We run the numbers
We show you how income is calculated, using your team as the example.
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We get you set up
We help you through the paperwork. You sign the contract directly with our technology partner.
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We support you
We help your team start recording and understand what counts.
The business is paid by the technology partner: up to 50 zł net per accepted hour, after the quality check. In the first month, payouts may be weekly, then monthly. Accepted hour = recording time × quality factor, so the final amount depends on video quality.
For businesses, not a replacement for your income.
Kitchens and food service, bakeries, warehouses and logistics, workshops and manufacturing, shops, cleaning, agriculture. Any type of business, as long as the filming is done by the company's employees or contractors.
Employees film their everyday work, and participation is voluntary. The business owner decides how to share the income within the team.
Know businesses built on manual work? Bring them into the programme and receive a percentage of their accepted recording hours.
UMELA Labs is not a staffing agency and does not look for people to take on. We build partnerships with companies.
What we believe in.
Working with your hands takes expertise. To us, a person with a camera isn't a “data source” but a master and a teacher.
We explain how income is calculated using real examples. No “easy money” and no promises that can't be kept.
Only hands and the workspace are in frame. No sound, and faces are blurred. The videos are used to train robots, not to assess your staff's performance.
To give people who work with their hands the opportunity to earn from their skill in the age of AI.
We're building a future where machines do the heavy, repetitive work, and people have time for creativity, care and new ideas.
Your team can already do what robots are learning.
Tell us what your business does, and we'll show you how it could bring in additional revenue.