Questions owners ask

No. We don't bid on or take cleaning accounts. We pay cleaning companies for video of the work they already do.

No. The form on colby.ing only asks us to call. You sign the agreement later, and only if you want to join.

In the U.S. only. When you sign up, we ask for the state where your cleaners work and a U.S. phone number.

The range is $10 to $15 an hour. Our team confirms your exact rate in writing, and it stays the same unless we both agree in writing to change it.

No. Only accepted hours are paid. If our team sends feedback, fix it before you record more.

Yes. Enter 1 cleaner when you sign up. The same rate and review rules apply.

Yes. Get the OK first, even when no one is there. The agreement you sign with Colby says you have the building's permission before anyone records.

Call our team at (480) 542-7526. We can help you find the answer before you go back to them.

No. Our team checks the video for things like hands in view and good light. We do not rate how fast or how well anyone cleans.

They take off the headband and go back to regular work. Let our team know so we don't expect more video from that person.

No. Only the listed models work: iPhone 12 through 15, most of the iPhone 16 and 17 models, some Google Pixels and the Galaxy S21 through S24.

No. The recording app is set up on the call, before any recording starts.

Pause, adjust it and check the view again. Then keep going.

Tell our team. We explain what to avoid and what to do if it happens.

The Order Form renews one month at a time unless one side gives written notice that it will not renew before the current term ends (Order Form Section 1.1).

You do. You sign online through DocuSign, then Colby signs.

Our team reviews it. Colby may sell or share selected video with outside teams for robot and world model work, as the agreement says.

Tell our team right away. We explain what to avoid and what to do when it happens by mistake.

The phone points down and out from the forehead, so it shows hands, tools and the surface. It does not point back at the person wearing it.

Those sit high and far away. They show where a person walked. They miss what the hands did with the rag and the spray bottle.

It learns from what is in the frame: hands, tools, surfaces and steps. That is why we ask your crew to keep private areas and personal information out of the shot.

The computer copies what it sees. If it sees fake, slow motions, it learns fake, slow motions. Our review turns down hours like that.

For some skills, teams have reported yes. Figure said its robot learned to find its way around homes from first-person human video alone. Hand skills like wiping and wringing are harder, and most teams mix people's video with robot practice.

No. We pay cleaning companies to record real work. The video helps AI and robotics teams learn how cleaning is done.

It is a close cousin. A chatbot works with words. A vision-language model also takes in pictures or video.

That depends on the model. It is one reason we ask your crew to keep faces, papers and screens out of the shot and tell us fast if something private gets recorded.

No. The VLA is the program. The robot is the body it runs on.

Teams train these models on many kinds of data, often including first-person video of people. We do not say which team uses any given hour.

It is a bit like one. A game follows rules someone wrote. A world model learns its rules from watching real video.

It can only copy what it has learned. Real video from real buildings is what it learns from in the first place.

We do not name buyers. We pay you for accepted hours at the rate agreed before work starts.

They need to know the people on camera agreed. That is why everyone in the recording has to agree to be recorded during their job before your crew starts.

It's a fair question. Nobody knows how fast robots will improve at hands-on cleaning, and we won't guess a date. We can tell you that owners in this program see the changes early and get paid for the hours in the meantime.

Only people who agreed to be recorded should be in a recording. Talk with us about what to tell a building before your crew records there.

It helps AI and robot teams learn how cleaning is done. Some of that work is for robots. We don't name who uses it, and we can't tell you what each team builds.

Robots are still years away from doing most of a cleaner's shift. The article on how far away robots are gives our best read and the research behind it. We won't promise a date either way.

Yes. Only people who agreed to be recorded during their job should be in a recording. Talk with your employer if you don't want to wear the camera.

In some big buildings they cover the nightly scrub. Someone still runs them and empties them. People still do edges, stripping and waxing. How much time that saves depends on the building.

Most are rented or paid for by the month, and prices vary by maker. They make the most sense in large open spaces like warehouses and airport halls.

Maybe, in a lab set up for it. Doing it in hundreds of different restrooms every night, fast and safely, is a much bigger step.

Yes, they are improving every year. How fast is the open question, and the next article covers what the research says.

Not in the next few years, based on everything we found. Past that, nobody knows. The AI researchers we cite give it about a 1 in 10 chance by 2035 and even odds by 2098.

You shouldn't take it on faith. Every number here links to its source below. Our part is the reading of those numbers, and we could be wrong.

Video like yours is one of many things robot teams use. We can't measure how much any one set of video moves the date.

If your company offers it, it is a useful skill. Robot scrubbers and ride-on machines need people who know how to set them up, clean them and fix small problems.

We can't promise that. It pays you for accepted hours and gives you an early look at where cleaning robots are headed.