YYForce Buys Wearable Cameras To Record Hotel Staff For Robot Training

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 (Bernama) -- Nasdaq-listed YYForce Inc (YYForce) has acquired 20 wearable data collection systems to record housekeeping staff at Novotel Singapore on Stevens at work, as part of its humanoid robotics development programme.

The systems combine head-mounted cameras that capture a first-person view with synchronised wrist-mounted cameras that record close-up footage of hands at work. The project will initially focus on selected hospitality workflows.

“Access to real operating environments and experienced service teams is an important part of our robotics development strategy.

“This initiative will help us document how housekeeping tasks are performed in practice and assess how those demonstrations can support humanoid robot learning,” said YYForce Chief Executive Officer, Mike Fu in a statement.

The initiative aims to build a dataset showing how experienced housekeeping staff carry out routine work. After review, annotation and technical processing, the recordings are intended to support robot learning research and task development, including work on vision-language-action (VLA) models, which allow robots to interpret what they see and act on instructions.

Planned recordings cover bed-making, linen handling and pillow arrangement; folding, placing and replenishing towels and guest-room supplies; and selected cleaning work, such as wiping surfaces and handling cleaning tools.

YYForce said the recordings would be checked for quality and annotated before being prepared as training data. It will then evaluate whether they improve robot performance on defined tasks, initially measuring task completion, repeatability and safe execution under controlled conditions.

The company said turning human demonstrations into robot capabilities would require further processing, adaptation to the chosen robotic hardware and controlled testing.

Data collection is planned to follow agreed hotel operating procedures and applicable data protection requirements. The company said that before recording begins, it expects to put arrangements in place covering staff notification and consent where required, guest privacy, access controls and permitted uses of the footage.

YYForce stressed that the project is at the development stage, and that buying the systems and collecting demonstrations does not by itself establish autonomous humanoid capabilities or readiness for commercial deployment.

-- BERNAMA