Get paid to film everyday tasks
Robots need
teachers too.
Get paid for everyday skills robots still need to learn.
Record real tasks from your point of view, earn a base award when your Lesson is accepted, and earn royalties when your data is licensed.
Early access · US only · 18+
You already know how.
They don't.
Every dishwasher loaded, shirt folded, machine cleaned, shelf stocked, garden tended, tool used and task completed contains thousands of decisions robots still need to learn.
Inside one ordinary minute
- Loading
- Grasping
- Sorting
- Folding
- Placing
- Cleaning
- Navigating
- Using tools
Real life is the curriculum.
Why Taught
Hourly gets paid once.
Great lessons can earn again.
Traditional hourly work: you record, you are paid once, and it ends.
When the shift ends, the earning opportunity usually ends with it.
Taught, illustrated: a Lesson is accepted and earns a base award, then can earn royalties each time it is licensed, with potential future licenses.
Taught gives useful data a longer economic life.
Teachers receive a base award for accepted Lessons.
When eligible non-exclusive Lessons are licensed to robotics companies, Teachers receive a share of that licensing revenue.
Teachers progress through Teacher Levels on the quality of their work, from a 40% royalty share at Level 1 to 70% at Level 5.
Illustrative model. Royalties depend on licensing activity, are paid in Gold once the buyer's payment settles, and are not guaranteed.
Your best lesson shouldn't have a one-hour shelf life.
Tap a buyer to license the lesson. Illustration only.
Taught isn't tied to one robot company.
For non-exclusive Lessons, Taught is designed to make useful training data available to multiple qualified robotics buyers.
That means one useful Lesson can have more than one potential customer.
- 01Exclusive Lesson
- Funded by one robotics buyer
- A guaranteed one-time award instead of royalties
- Licensed exclusively to that buyer
When a robotics company needs exclusive data, it funds a Lesson with its own requirements and award. You'll always see that a Lesson is exclusive before you record, and you keep ownership of your footage.
Don't just rent your time.
Taught isn't trying to create cheaper hourly labor. It's a marketplace where human knowledge has residual value.
Traditional hourly data work
- Payment
- Paid for the shift
- Future upside
- Typically ends with the project
- Customer exposure
- Depends on the specific project or provider
- Data reuse economics
- Worker usually does not participate
- Exclusive assignments
- Project-specific
Taught
- Payment
- Base award + potential royalties
- Future upside
- Eligible Lessons can earn from future licenses
- Customer exposure
- Built to serve multiple robotics companies
- Data reuse economics
- Teachers participate in licensing economics
- Exclusive assignments
- Buyer-funded Exclusive Lessons with a guaranteed award
What could you teach?
Probably more than you think.
- 80 Gold+ royalties96% match Demand284 lessons needed
- 90 Gold+ royalties92% match Demand132 lessons needed
- 65 Gold+ royalties Demand
- 70 Gold+ royalties
- 140 Gold+ royalties High demand
- 70 Gold+ royalties
Teaching a robot is surprisingly normal.
01Pick a Lesson
Taught recommends Lessons based on your home, equipment, work, hobbies and skills.
- 02
Mount your phone
Use an approved head or chest mount.
- 03
Do the thing
Cook. Clean. Fold. Fix. Organize. Build. Work.
You don't act like a robot. You act like yourself.
- What a reviewer looks forHands and workspace in frameSteady camera workComplete workflow, start to finish04
Submit
A quick automated check confirms the basics, like minimum length. Then a person reviews your recording against the Lesson's requirements.
- Lesson accepted+70 GoldRoyalty eligible05
Get rewarded
Accepted Lessons earn a base award. Eligible Lessons can continue earning royalties when they are licensed.
Useful teaching earns Gold.
- 01Complete approved Lessons
- 02Earn Gold
- 03Redeem Gold for gift cards
- +Keep eligible royalty participation
Gift-card brands and availability may vary.
- Reward$5Gift Card
- Reward$10Gift Card
- Reward$25Gift Card
- Reward$50Gift Card
Better teachers earn a bigger share.
Quality matters. Teachers build a track record, and better work raises your Teacher Level. Each level carries a bigger share of royalties — and levels only go up.
Your level is built on
- Recording quality
- Accepted Lessons
- Following Lesson requirements
- Months of activity
- Range across categories
- Where every Teacher startsLevel 140%royalty share
- A few accepted Lessons of good qualityLevel 250%royalty share
- Consistent quality over several monthsLevel 360%royalty share
- High quality across more than one categoryLevel 465%royalty share
- Top quality, sustained, across categoriesLevel 570%royalty share
Shares reflect the current compensation configuration and may change; a new share applies to future licenses. Level is driven by quality, accepted Lessons, active months and category range — never raw upload volume. Royalties depend on licensing activity and are not guaranteed.
Your phone is probably all the camera you need.
Some Lessons are handheld. Others require hands-free capture.
For hands-free Lessons, Teachers can use inexpensive approved smartphone mounts.
Every Lesson has a clear requirement.
Every accepted Lesson has a visible reward.
Every license is recorded.
Teachers can see when their work earns again.
Robots are learning to live in our world.
That means someone has to teach them what we barely think about anymore.
The physical world runs on billions of tiny lessons humans learned years ago.
Now those lessons have value again.
Robots need teachers too.
What do you know
that a robot doesn't?
Probably a lot. Request early access — Taught is opening to adults 18+ in the US first.
Questions
What is Taught?
An app where you record first-person video of everyday tasks — loading a dishwasher, folding laundry, restocking a shelf — so robots can learn how people really do them. Taught turns those recordings into training data for robotics companies and pays the people who teach.
Who can take part?
At launch, adults 18 and older in the United States. Requesting early access puts you on the list; it doesn’t create an account.
Do I need special equipment?
Usually just a phone. Some Lessons need hands-free video, which means an inexpensive head or chest mount — see gear.
How do I get paid?
Accepted Lessons earn a base award in Gold. Eligible Lessons can also earn royalties in Gold when they are licensed. You redeem Gold for gift cards. How earning works.
Are royalties guaranteed?
No. Royalties depend on future licensing activity, and a royalty becomes available once the buyer’s payment settles.
Can the same Lesson earn more than once?
Eligible non-exclusive Lessons can be licensed to more than one robotics company, and each license can earn a royalty.
Can one company own my recording?
No. You own your original footage. Some buyer-funded Exclusive Lessons are licensed exclusively to one buyer — the Lesson says so before you record, and it pays a guaranteed one-time award instead of royalties.
What happens to my data?
Recordings are reviewed for quality, prepared as training data, licensed to qualified robotics and AI companies and may help train Taught's own AI models, under Taught's terms. You earn royalties when your recordings, or Taught models trained on them, are licensed or sold. You'll see which Lessons are exclusive before you record. Read the Terms of Service.
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