Anthrobase / About
Building the data layer for Physical AI.
Anthrobase is a physical AI data infrastructure company. We record how master practitioners carry out skilled work, and structure those recordings into training data for robotic foundation models.
Robot foundation models have most of the internet to learn from. What they lack is grounded human expertise.
The judgment, attention, and recovery of people who are masters of a physical task does not exist on the internet in any usable form. It lives in hands and habits, in how a line cook reads a pan or a mason reads a wall. Anthrobase exists to capture that, with consent, and turn it into a corpus models can actually learn from.
We are early: three verticals are signed and scheduled for capture across nine partner sites, first captures begin August 2026, and the first licensed dataset release is planned for H2 2026.
We capture, structure, and license expert work.
Capture
We work alongside expert practitioners at partner sites and record how they carry out real work, from beginning to end.
Structure
Every session is documented to a consistent standard, reviewed by named technical experts, and prepared so that models can learn from it.
License
We licence the resulting datasets to robotics labs with explicit consent and a complete record of provenance, in the formats those teams already use.
Principles we build on.
Expertise over scale
A small corpus of true mastery is worth more than a large corpus of average work. We capture the best practitioners, not the most available.
Consent is the product
People who give us their expertise are partners, not subjects. Consent, compensation, and the right to withdraw are built in, not bolted on.
Built in India
India has extraordinary depth of physical skill across hospitality, craft, construction, and industry. We capture it where it lives, under Indian law.
Open by default
We deliver in the open formats the robotics community already uses, so our data drops into existing pipelines without lock-in.
Work with us, or join us.
Scope a dataset, become a capture site, or build the data layer for Physical AI with us.