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These workers help train robots who could one day steal their jobs

Factory workers in India are wearing GoPro cameras to record how they do their jobs, with the stated goal of training robots to take over; it is unclear it will work.

On air: Hank Ledger on Wake Up, America
Published 5:50 AM ET, Wednesday, October 14, 2026

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First reported by NPR: “These workers help train robots who could one day steal their jobs”.
Covered on BBN on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, at 5:50 AM ET on Wake Up, America, by Hank Ledger.

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NPRThese workers help train robots who could one day steal their jobs

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Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFactory workers in India are being asked to strap on GoPro cameras so robots can learn their jobs.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLola Cruz is live at one of those factories this morning.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentHank, I'm standing at the edge of a factory floor where every worker has a camera strapped to the forehead, and I have covered coups with less tension than this.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThe idea is simple: record how a person does the job, feed it to a robot, and one day the robot does it instead.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentNPR reports that the goal is full takeover.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo they're filming their own replacement's training video.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentExactly. Every shift is a first-person audition, and the only one who gets the part is a machine that never asks for a day off.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWill it actually work?
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThat's the open question, Hank.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentIt is unclear whether a robot can learn a job from a forehead camera, and nobody here will promise it can.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentBut think about what the camera sees: every shortcut, every sigh, every slow walk to the water cooler.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThe robot is going to learn all of it.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the first thing it masters is the water cooler.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentRight. And a man behind me just spent four minutes adjusting his camera angle to look taller, so the robot will be vain too.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorVain, I can live with.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentHank, the robot can take the welding, the lifting and the late shifts. The long lunch, though, these guys trained it perfectly.