Shift Offers Free NYC Cleaning to Train Household Robots
Shift is a new service that offers free cleaning in New York City to train household robots. The service works by having a vetted operator come to a user's home, clean, and then leave, with the user paying nothing in exchange for the service. The data collected from the cleaning process is anonymized and used to fund the service, with plans to expand to other services such as handymen, repairs, and errands in the future.
- ▪Shift is offering free cleaning services in New York City to train household robots.
- ▪The service is funded by the data collected from the cleaning process, which is anonymized before being processed.
- ▪Shift plans to expand its services to include handymen, repairs, and errands in the future.
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shift@joinshiftXToday, we're launching shift. We're starting by cleaning your apartment in New York City, for free. Here's how it works. Book a shift cleaning. A vetted shift operator comes to your home wearing one of our devices. They clean. They leave. You pay nothing. In exchange, we record is being built on data about how people do daily tasks, and the value of that recording is what funds the service. Anything personal in it is anonymized before the recording is processed. By now, you have heard about the shift to AI more times than you can count. About the shift toward you, the part where you actually feel it, you have heard almost nothing. Shift is what starts to make it concrete, in specific cities, with specific services. Today, cleaning in New York.
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