Can a robotics startup survive by pivoting from hardware to data scraping?

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According to public posts from one of their engineers, they re now:· Scraping 1M+ hours of POV video from the internet · Burning significant GPU hours while models only work for basic tasks · Down to 10 people after laying off ~50% of the teamThis raises a broader question:· Is scraping public video a viable long-term data strategy, or a dead end? · Are there examples of hardware companies that successfully made this pivot?They originally built Eggie, a multipurpose humanoid robot, but Tangible has since pivoted to building an AI foundation model for robotics.

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