Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?

Encord is testing a Zander Labs headset that captures brain activity while a human trainer performs robot tasks.

The goal is to see whether brain-wave-tagged data can improve robotics model performance and training efficiency.

The experiment reflects a wider push by robotics startups to create scarce real-world training data from video, remote operation, and other sensors.

If successful, brain-signal tagging could become a valuable new data source for physical AI systems facing a data bottleneck.