The global robotics market is $88 billion in 2026 and heading to $218 billion by 2031. Investors poured over $6 billion into humanoid robots in 2025 alone. Tesla, Figure AI, Agility Robotics, and a dozen Chinese startups are all racing to build machines that can fold towels, stack boxes, and work assembly lines.They all need the same thing: millions of hours of first-person video showing human hands manipulating objects. Virtual simulations can teach a robot to do backflips. They cannot teach it