India, June 30 -- A recent news story highlighted how machine technicians in a textile factory in Nagpur have been strapped with small recording devices during working hours to track their every action. At another textile factory in Tamil Nadu, several women workers wear smart glasses that record their hand movements as they neatly pack items into plastic covers. Many Chinese and US-based AI data solutions and robotics companies have been heavily outsourcing egocentric data collection to India's vast network of factory workers and gig labourers to equip the next generation of humanoid robots and physical AI systems. Another news story underlined that, for the tenth consecutive year, the number of newborns fell in Japan, and that the world...