What the work actually is

You strap a compatible phone to your head, press record, and do the dishes. Then fold laundry, wipe counters, unload groceries, sort recycling — the ordinary manual tasks that robots are notoriously bad at and that models need thousands of hours of egocentric footage to learn. Each project comes with guidelines: a required camera angle, a minimum clip length, framing rules (hands visible for the whole manipulation), lighting expectations, and often a list of task types to cover. Footage that drifts off-guideline — hands out of frame, heavy motion blur, a task cut off before completion — may not be accepted, and pay is per hour of accepted recorded video, not per hour of your day.

The practical rhythm is batch-based. You record a session, review it before uploading, upload over Wi-Fi (files are large), and tag or describe what you did. Most contributors fold this into chores they were doing anyway, which is the point of the design.

What the platform screens for

micro1's onboarding includes a device compatibility check and a short AI-led interview. The screen is not testing expertise — it is testing that you are a real person in an eligible state, with the exact phone model listed, physically able to do repetitive bending, lifting and reaching safely, and willing to wear a visible head mount in your own home. Expect direct questions about your device model and OS version, your state of residence, U.S. work eligibility, your home setup (space, lighting, Wi-Fi upload capacity), and how many hours a week you can realistically produce. Answers that are vague about the phone model or the state are the fastest way to stall an application.

Logistics

  • Fully remote, fully asynchronous — you record on your own schedule, no shifts or meetings.
  • Restricted to residents of the ~40 listed states; California, New Jersey, Washington, Oregon, Connecticut, Colorado, Arizona and others are not on the list.
  • Start date depends on head-strap shipping time to your address.
  • A $20 signing bonus reimburses the head strap after 20 completed hours of work.
  • Compatible phones only: iPhone 12 or later, Google Pixel 6–9, or Samsung Galaxy S21 or later.
  • Pay band observed at $10–15/hr of submitted, guideline-compliant video; not guaranteed, and volume depends on project availability.