India, May 25 -- At a time when Bengaluru-based startup Pronto is under fire for using its staffers to record videos inside customers' homes, the founder of a data collection company has added fuel to fire. Human Archive founder Rushil Agarwal has taken a swipe at Pronto founder Anjali Sardana amid the ongoing controversy around the Bengaluru startup's use of cameras inside customers' homes to train AI systems.

Rushil Agarwal is one of the founders of Human Archive, a startup focused on collecting large-scale "human behaviour" datasets for training AI. The company records things like human movement, hand actions and real-world interactions to help train future humanoid robots and physical AI systems.

The idea is that robots can learn ta...