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Humanoid Training Services

Training a humanoid takes demonstrations, teleoperation hours and careful testing. Many teams now buy some of that work as a service. Here is what each service covers and how to choose a provider.

By Arjun Rao · Updated October 2026

What training services cover

Providers sell three kinds of work. Data collection: people record demonstrations of tasks, often through teleoperation rigs or motion capture, and deliver labeled episodes. Simulation: teams build digital versions of your site and generate synthetic practice. Evaluation: testers run the robot through agreed task suites and report success rates, failure cases and safety stops. Some providers bundle all three; others specialize in one.

When outsourcing makes sense

Outsourcing helps when you need many hours of demonstrations quickly, when your team lacks teleoperation equipment, or when you want an independent check of a model's performance. It makes less sense for tasks that depend on private processes or sensitive sites, where data cannot leave your control. Many teams keep task design and final evaluation in-house and buy the repetitive collection work.

Questions to ask a provider

Ask who owns the recorded data and trained models, and whether your data is used to train anything else. Check the hardware the provider records on, since demonstrations transfer best to the same or similar robots. Ask for sample episodes, labeling guidelines and how quality is checked. Agree evaluation tasks and pass marks before work starts, so results are measured the same way every time.

Sources and further reading

ISO/IEC 5259-1:2024 Artificial intelligence — Data quality for analytics and machine learning (ML) — Part 1: Overview, terminology, and examples — International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and IEC.
Opening part of the ISO/IEC 5259 series on assessing and improving the quality of data used to train machine learning models.
DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset — DROID multi-university collaboration (arXiv).
How a team of data collectors gathered robot demonstrations across hundreds of real scenes, and what that variety did for policies.
Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (Data Act) — EUR-Lex, Publications Office of the European Union.
EU rules on who may access and use data generated by connected products, relevant when robots record data on your premises.

Common questions

How many demonstrations does a humanoid need to learn a task?

It varies widely with the task and the model. Simple pick-and-place may need tens to hundreds of demonstrations, while varied, multi-step tasks can need far more. Ask providers for results on comparable tasks.

Can THG help set up training for a humanoid?

Yes. THG's deployment engineers set up the robot and its integrations, and the Academy trains the people who will teach and run it.

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Simulation & Sim-to-Real — Why humanoids train in simulation first, and what it takes to cross the gap to the real world.
Evaluation & Readiness — How to judge whether a humanoid is safe, reliable and ready for real work.
Preparing Your Team — The roles, skills and habits your organisation needs before humanoids arrive.
Humanoid Training Services — When to outsource robot data collection, teleoperation and evaluation, and what to ask a provider.
How to Train a Humanoid — A plain-language walkthrough of teaching a humanoid a new task, from demonstration to testing.
Teleoperation for Data — VR, leader-arm and exoskeleton rigs for recording humanoid demonstrations, and what makes a run worth keeping.
Learning to Walk — How reinforcement learning teaches humanoids to walk and balance in simulation before they step out for real.
Training Data and Privacy — Recording people at work or at home to train robots: consent, data protection law and careful data handling.
Choosing First Tasks — How to pick a humanoid's first skills, set pass marks and budget for the demonstrations each one needs.
Safety While Training — Zones, stops and supervision that keep people safe while a humanoid is being taught, tested and debugged.
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