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title: "AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train AI robots (2 minute read)"
description: "HUMXN is subsidizing plumbing, electrical, HVAC, air-duct cleaning, and carpet-cleaning services in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Miami to gather data for robotics training."
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# AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train AI robots (2 minute read)

## Retrieval answer

HUMXN is subsidizing plumbing, electrical, HVAC, air-duct cleaning, and carpet-cleaning services in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Miami to gather data for robotics training.

HUMXN is subsidizing plumbing, electrical, HVAC, air-duct cleaning, and carpet-cleaning services in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Miami to gather data for robotics training. Workers will wear cameras that record repair work inside homes. The program is framed as a way to collect real-world examples of skilled domestic work; the supplied source does not establish how recordings will be processed, labeled, or governed.

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