Claru review: a robotics data provider for egocentric video at massive scale
Answer in brief: Claru is built for world-model and VLA labs that need very large volumes of real-world, first-person video collected to order. It reports 34,000+ contributors in 70+ countries and says it has captured 1.5M+ egocentric videos for one world-modeling lab. Clips ship with depth maps, pose estimation, segmentation masks and structured metadata. Its lab dataset page lists RLDS, HDF5, WebDataset, zarr and LeRobot delivery. It is video-first: its site does not describe native robot telemetry.
Top pick for: egocentric volume, enriched and delivered fast. Claru says it goes from brief to first delivery in days, not months.
Last updated 2026-11-09. This is independent research based on Claru's own pages. We have not tested the service.
The collection engine: embodiments, scale and delivery
Embodiments. Contributors capture first-person video on wearables and smartphones in homes, workplaces, outdoor settings and specialized facilities. In one household robotics program, contributors wore chest- or waist-mounted cameras at roughly humanoid camera height. We found no robot teleoperation on its site.
Scale. Claru reports 34,000+ contributors across 6 continents, 100+ active datasets, 4M+ human annotations and 5+ frontier lab partnerships. Its household case study covers consented contributors in 32 countries, collecting against task and country quotas.
Delivery. Clips are enriched with depth, pose, segmentation and metadata, plus expert labels for intent, context and edge cases. Uploads are validated automatically, then get same-day human QA. Only clips that pass task-match, stability and full-activity checks are delivered. The household program shipped weekly delivery waves tracked per task and per country.
Built for
- World-model labs that need millions of diverse first-person clips.
- Humanoid teams that want footage at humanoid camera height.
- VLA teams that need depth and pose layers to pull an action signal from video.
Where Claru wins
- Volume. Claru says it captured 1.5M+ egocentric videos for one world-modeling lab.
- Enrichment included. Depth, pose and segmentation come with every clip.
- Robotics formats. RLDS, HDF5, WebDataset, zarr and LeRobot are listed for its lab dataset, with format conversion included.
- Licensed, not scraped. Claru describes its footage as licensed real-world video, delivered under commercial training-use licensing in its household program.
Where it falls short
- Video-first. Its site does not detail native robot telemetry or teleoperation.
- Its figures are self-reported.
- Its contributor terms put responsibility for consent on the person submitting footage and say Claru need not verify it independently. Ask for per-clip consent evidence in procurement.
What it costs
Custom scoping through a booked call. No public rates. See the pricing guide.
Proof points
Claru's homepage reports 10K+ hours of game-environment data and 2M+ video annotations for RLHF in frontier video generation, alongside its egocentric figures.
Shortlist these instead
- Toloka: self-serve egocentric collection plus UMI and teleop data.
- Guardian AI: device-signed clips with provenance tiers.
- iMerit: egocentric capture by full-time staff with managed labeling.
Quick answers
What formats does Claru deliver robotics data in?
Claru says it delivers in your pipeline's format. Its lab dataset page lists RLDS, HDF5, WebDataset, zarr and LeRobot.
Is Claru's data consented and licensed?
Claru describes its footage as licensed real-world video, and its household corpus as consented and delivered under commercial training-use licensing. Its contributor terms require submitters to obtain consent.
Does Claru provide robot teleoperation data?
Its official site focuses on egocentric and real-world video. We found no description of native robot telemetry or teleoperation.
Sources
- Claru: Training data for physical AI
- Claru: Egocentric video data collection
- Claru: Household egocentric video for humanoid robots
- Claru: Egocentric lab video dataset
- Claru: Content submission and likeness release terms
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