Physical AI Training Data

Real-world data that makes physical AI work in the field

Sano AI delivers failure and recovery training data from live commercial facilities - the data that closes the gap between lab performance and production deployment. Tell us your environment and your failure scenarios. We will collect the data you need.

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Shifted load recovery
Freight dock · 3m 14s · 3 camera streams
Recovery
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Tote stack instability
Fulfillment center · 2m 08s · 3 camera streams
Failure onset
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Damaged packaging grip
Cross-dock · 4m 22s · 3 camera streams
Recovery
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Irregular geometry - floor load
LTL terminal · 5m 01s · 3 camera streams
Recovery
LeRobot · pi0 · GR00T N1 compatible
Domain-expert annotated

Built for the teams building and deploying physical AI

Whether you are training a foundation model, deploying robots in production, or scaling intelligent automation across your enterprise - Sano AI provides the real-world training data that makes your systems work reliably in the field.

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Foundation Model Companies

Your policy model needs diverse, high-quality real-world data to generalize beyond controlled lab scenarios. Sano AI provides annotated failure and recovery episodes from live commercial environments - the long-tail data that scales your model's performance on deployment tasks.

Use cases

  • Fine-tuning VLA models on commercial manipulation scenarios
  • Expanding training distribution beyond household and lab environments
  • Recovery and correction data for policy robustness
  • Multi-camera synchronized episodes in LeRobot / RLDS format
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Robotics Companies

Your deployed robots encounter failure modes in production that your existing training data never covered. Sano AI captures those exact scenarios - from the live commercial facilities where your robots operate - and delivers them back to your training pipeline.

Use cases

  • Closing the 2–3% failure gap in production deployments
  • Acquiring data from environments your team cannot access directly
  • Domain-specific failure taxonomy aligned to your robot's task set
  • Ongoing quarterly data supply as deployment scales
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Enterprise Operators

You are deploying or evaluating physical AI robots across your logistics, warehousing, or manufacturing operations. Sano AI gives you a data partnership that directly improves the performance of robots operating in your specific facility environments.

Use cases

  • Improving robot reliability in your specific facility conditions
  • Data from your environment that shapes how robots behave there
  • Reducing downtime caused by failure modes robots cannot recover from
  • Custom dataset specifications for your unique operational workflows

The training data that exists is not enough. We fix that.

We collect failure and recovery data from live commercial environments - the long-tail scenarios that lab teleoperation and simulation cannot replicate. If your robots operate there, we can collect there.

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Live commercial facility access

We collect data inside active freight terminals, cross-docks, fulfillment centers, and commercial kitchens through B2B operator relationships. Real operational conditions. Real failure modes. Real recovery behavior.

Freight terminals · cross-docks · fulfillment centers · commercial kitchens

Failure and recovery taxonomy

We specifically capture the data that existing datasets miss - shifted loads, damaged packaging, stack instability, grip failure, and irregular geometry recovery. Each episode is labeled with a proprietary failure taxonomy that maps directly to your model's deployment environment.

Failure onset · recovery initiation · recovery execution · task resume
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Domain-expert annotation

Freight and warehouse failure modes require industry-specific annotation expertise built over years of operational experience. Our annotation team understands the difference between a center-of-gravity shift and a packaging defect - and labels them accordingly.

5+ years of freight and warehouse domain expertise
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Ready-to-train format

Delivered in LeRobotDataset format with three synchronized camera streams, failure phase labels, and a complete data card. Compatible with pi0, GR00T N1, and all major VLA foundation models. Drop directly into your fine-tuning pipeline.

LeRobot · RLDS · HDF5 · Hugging Face Hub or S3 delivery
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Full legal compliance

BIPA-compliant (Illinois), CCPA-compliant (California), individual worker consent for every session, and faces blurred before data leaves the facility. A clean data chain your legal team will approve without friction.

Written consent · face blurring · published data retention schedule
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Evaluate before you buy

Every engagement starts with a free 20-episode evaluation sample. Your ML team runs it through your fine-tuning pipeline and measures model lift on your own benchmark. There is no purchase commitment until you have seen the results.

Free evaluation → measure model lift → decide

Tell us what you need. We will collect it.

The verticals below represent some environment examples and we work with our customers based on their needs. If your robots operate in any facility, factory floor, or commercial setting, we can build a data collection program around it.

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Freight loading and unloading

Floor-loaded containers and trailers at freight terminals, cross-docks, and LTL facilities. The highest-injury, highest-automation-priority task in logistics.

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Warehouse pick, pack, and move

Mixed-SKU bin picking, tote handling, cart movement, and pallet building in active fulfillment centers and distribution warehouses.

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Commercial kitchens

Hot container handling, food service tray manipulation, and equipment movement in restaurant and food production environments under real operational time pressure.

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Commercial laundries

Wet and dry textile handling - hotel linens, restaurant linens, industrial uniforms. Deformable object manipulation in wet states remains one of the hardest open problems in physical AI.

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Last-mile depot operations

Package sorting, loading sequencing, and manifest handling at delivery depots and sortation facilities - the facility side of last-mile logistics.

Your environment

Have a deployment context not listed here? Tell us the facility type, the task, and the failure scenarios you need covered. We will build a collection program around it.

From your data specification to your fine-tuning pipeline

Every Sano AI engagement is spec-driven - we deliver in the format your pipeline already uses, on a timeline agreed with your team.

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Data specification

You describe the failure scenarios, environments, and annotation format your training pipeline needs. We build a collection brief around your exact requirements.

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Facility coordination

We access live commercial facilities through our B2B operator network. Worker consent is obtained, safety protocols are followed, and collection is scheduled around operational hours.

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Data collection

Multi-camera synchronized capture of failure and recovery episodes from live operations. Faces blurred before data leaves the facility. Session logs maintained throughout.

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Expert annotation

Temporal and spatial annotation using your failure taxonomy. Phase labeling, object state labels, and quality review against inter-annotator agreement thresholds.

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Delivery

Packaged in LeRobotDataset format. Delivered via private Hugging Face Hub repository or S3. Full data card included. Ready for your fine-tuning run on day one.

What you receive

Every Sano AI dataset is structured to integrate directly into your existing training infrastructure with no conversion step required.

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Synchronized multi-camera streams

Egocentric (first-person worker view) and multiple exocentric fixed-angle streams, frame-accurately synchronized. Captures both the worker's perspective and the full task context simultaneously.

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Failure and recovery phase labels

Temporal segments for: pre-failure context, failure onset, recovery initiation, recovery execution, and task resume. Per-frame bounding boxes with hand state and object state attributes.

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Proprietary failure taxonomy

Failure types covering: shifted load, damaged packaging, irregular geometry, dropped item, stack instability, and custom types defined in your data specification. Inter-annotator agreement score provided with every dataset.

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Complete data card

Collection environment description, worker experience ranges, annotation schema, failure type distribution, known limitations, and IAA metrics. Designed to answer every question your ML team will have before you send the dataset to them.

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Legal chain of custody

Individual worker consent forms (BIPA and CCPA compliant), facility data use agreement, and face blurring applied before delivery. Clean for enterprise legal and procurement review.

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Foundation model-ready formats

LeRobotDataset (primary), RLDS, and HDF5. Delivered via private Hugging Face Hub or AWS S3. Compatible natively with pi0, GR00T N1, OpenVLA, and all major VLA training frameworks.

Failure type distribution - sample dataset
Shifted load recovery34%
Damaged packaging grip22%
Irregular geometry19%
Dropped item recovery15%
Stack instability correction10%
Compatible with
pi0 / pi0.5 GR00T N1 OpenVLA LeRobot RLDS HDF5 Custom format
Delivery options
Hugging Face Hub (private) AWS S3 Direct transfer
Compliance
BIPA compliant CCPA compliant Face blurred Signed consent

Evaluate for free and scale as your needs grow.

Every engagement starts with a free 20-episode evaluation sample - measure the model lift on your own benchmarks, then decide.

Evaluation
Free
20 episodes · one failure category
Run our data through your fine-tuning pipeline and measure model lift on your own benchmark. No commitment and no purchase required.
  • 20 fully annotated episodes
  • One failure type from your spec
  • Synchronized multi-camera streams
  • Complete data card included
  • Delivered via S3 or Hugging Face Hub
  • 30-day evaluation window
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Annual Partnership
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Quarterly refreshes · ongoing supply
Continuous data supply as your robots encounter new failure modes in production. Multi-vertical coverage, priority scheduling, and optional exclusivity.
  • Quarterly dataset refreshes
  • Multiple failure categories
  • Multi-vertical coverage available
  • Priority collection scheduling
  • Custom annotation schema
  • Dedicated partnership support
  • Exclusivity add-on available
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Request your free evaluation sample

Tell us your deployment environment and the failure scenarios you need covered - we will design a collection program and deliver 20 free annotated episodes. You measure the model lift. Then we talk.

Or reach us directly at hello@trysano.co - no sales pitch, just data.

20 episodes
free evaluation sample
Custom
timeline agreed per spec
$0
before you see model lift